cve-2000-0727
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2000-10-13 04:00
Modified
2024-08-08 05:28
Severity ?
Summary
xpdf PDF viewer client earlier than 0.91 does not properly launch a web browser for embedded URL's, which allows an attacker to execute arbitrary commands via a URL that contains shell metacharacters.
Impacted products
n/an/a
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