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CVE-2026-110642 (GCVE-0-2026-110642)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-10-14 14:17
Modified
2026-10-14 18:18
CWE
  • CWE-78 - Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection')
Summary
xhtml2pdf before 0.2.19 contains an OS command injection vulnerability in pisa.startViewer() that allows attackers to execute commands by interpolating unescaped file names into os.system. Attackers can supply an input file whose name contains a double quote and shell metacharacters, which runs OS commands as the invoking user when the pisa tool is used with -s/--start-viewer.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
xhtml2pdf xhtml2pdf Version: 0   ≤
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