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Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

CVE-2022-46161

High
9.8/10

Summary

pdfmake is an open source client/server side PDF printing in pure JavaScript. pdfmake versions 0.1.37 through 0.2.6 and 0.3.0-beta.1 through 0.3.0-beta.3 contains an unsafe evaluation of user controlled input. Users of pdfmake are thus subject to arbitrary code execution in the context of the process running the pdfmake code. There are no known fixes for this issue. Users are advised to restrict access to trusted user input.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
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  • HIGH
  • HIGH

CWE-94 - Code Injection

Code injection is a type of vulnerability that allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code. This vulnerability fully compromises the machine and can cause a wide variety of security issues, such as unauthorized access to sensitive information, manipulation of data, denial of service attacks etc. Code injection is different from command injection in the fact that it is limited by the functionality of the injected language (e.g. PHP), as opposed to command injection, which leverages existing code to execute commands, usually within the context of a shell.

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Advisory Timeline

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