Where
-Infinity
0
Severity
9.8
OS Command Injection, Command Injection
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

pypdftk through 0.5 contains an OS command injection vulnerability in fillform(), dumpdatafields(), and pdftkcmdutil() that builds shell commands from caller-supplied paths. Attackers controlling pdfpath or outfile can inject shell metacharacters interpreted by subprocess.Popen with shell=True to execute OS commands as the Python process.

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