Where
-Infinity
0
Severity
7.8
OS Command Injection, Command Injection
AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

buildebooks before 0.2.2 contains an OS command injection vulnerability in lib/kindle.js that allows attackers to execute commands by supplying a crafted EPUB file name passed to kindlegen via childprocess.exec. Attackers can craft a book project with a malicious front-matter filename or project folder name and kindle: true to execute OS commands as the user running buildebooks.

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