CVE-2003-0434
Various PDF viewers including (1) Adobe Acrobat 5.06 and (2) Xpdf 1.01 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in an embedded hyperlink.
02 Description
Various PDF viewers including (1) Adobe Acrobat 5.06 and (2) Xpdf 1.01 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in an embedded hyperlink.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 40.94% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 98.5% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- Important. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2003-06-18 04:00Z23 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-08 01:50Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2003-06-16
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- No CWE assigned
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 4983c70ade262c1af52d6b267e40a1607432e6de3a6eed77201a27f39ea78a77
05 Affected products
06 References
- secunia.com9038http://secunia.com/advisories/9038
- www.mandriva.comMDKSA-2003:071http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2003:071
- www.kb.cert.orgVU#200132http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/200132
- lists.grok.org.uk20030613 -10Day CERT Advisory on PDF Fileshttp://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2003-June/005719.html
- www.redhat.comRHSA-2003:196http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-196.html
- secunia.com9037http://secunia.com/advisories/9037
- www.redhat.comRHSA-2003:197http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-197.html
- marc.info20030709 xpdf vulnerability - CAN-2003-0434http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=105777963019186&w=2
- oval.cisecurity.orgoval:org.mitre.oval:def:664https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A664
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- xpdf Fixed in 2.02pl1-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- xpdf Fixed in 2.02pl1-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- xpdf Fixed in 2.02pl1-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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