CVE-2009-1144 — Code Injection in Xpdf

CWE-94 — Code Injection4 documents4 sources
Severity
6.9MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.1%
top 74.44%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
Glyphandcog XpdfreaderFoolabs Xpdf
Timeline
PublishedApr 9
Latest updateMay 2

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in the Gentoo package of Xpdf before 3.02-r2 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse xpdfrc file in the current working directory, related to an unset SYSTEM_XPDFRC macro in a Gentoo build process that uses the poppler library.

CVSS vector

AV:L/AC:M/C:C/I:C/A:CExploitability: 3.4 | Impact: 10.0

Affected Packages2 packages

▶NVDfoolabs/xpdf14 versions+13

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-xj2c-76v8-mh2r: Untrusted search path vulnerability in the Gentoo package of Xpdf before 3↗2022-05-02
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CVEList
CVE-2009-1144: Untrusted search path vulnerability in the Gentoo package of Xpdf before 3↗2009-04-09
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📋Vendor Advisories

1
Debian
CVE-2009-1144: xpdf - Untrusted search path vulnerability in the Gentoo package of Xpdf before 3.02-r2...↗2009
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