Vulnerability · Published Dec 6, 2022 · Assigned by GitHub_M

CVE-2022-46161Code injection in pdfmake

Critical 10.0

In plain English

A critical-severity code injection in pdfmake from bpampuch. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.7% (higher than 78% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)10.0Critical

Exploit odds (30 days)1.7%top 22.3% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: poc

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

pdfmake is an open source client/server side PDF printing in pure JavaScript. In versions up to and including 0.2.5 pdfmake contains an unsafe evaluation of user controlled input. Users of pdfmake are thus subject to arbitrary code execution in the context of the process running the pdfmake code. There are no known fixes for this issue. Users are advised to restrict access to trusted user input.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
bpampuch	pdfmake	<= 0.2.5

Weakness: CWE-94 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2022-068_pdfmake/ x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/bpampuch/pdfmake/blob/802813970ac6de68a0bd0931b74150b33da0dd18/dev-playground/server.js#L32 x_refsource_MISC