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CVE-2022-36231

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2023-02-23 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-78

Description

pdf_info 0.5.3 is vulnerable to Command Execution because the Ruby code uses backticks instead of Open3.

Affected products

• Newspaperclub Pdf Info: 0.5.3

References

• https://github.com/affix/CVE-2022-36231
• https://github.com/newspaperclub/pdf_info/issues/16
• https://github.com/newspaperclub/pdf_info/pull/15
• https://rubygems.org/gems/pdf_info
• https://github.com/affix/CVE-2022-36231
• https://github.com/newspaperclub/pdf_info/issues/16
• https://github.com/newspaperclub/pdf_info/pull/15
• https://rubygems.org/gems/pdf_info

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