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CVE-2020-37279

8.1, high

Karuppiah7890 easy-pdf-merge OS Command Injection Vulnerability

NVD (opens in a new tab) CVE.org (opens in a new tab)
CVSS
8.1, high high CVSS v3.1
EPSS, next 30 days
1% higher than 73.7% of scored CVEs
Exploitation
No public evidence
Published
12 Oct 20265 days ago

Description

easy-pdf-merge 0.1.0 through 0.2.6 contains an OS command injection vulnerability that allows attackers to execute commands by injecting shell metacharacters into source paths, destination path, or maxHeap option. Attackers can supply file names or options containing double quotes, semicolons, $() or backticks, which child_process.exec() runs through a shell with the Node.js process privileges.

Details

Vendor
Karuppiah7890
Product
easy-pdf-merge
Weakness
CWE-78 (opens in a new tab)
Status
Received
Updated
12 Oct 2026
Assigner
disclosure@vulncheck.com

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References 5

Patches and fixes 2

Other references 3

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Assembled from the NVD 2.0 API, the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog and FIRST EPSS. Scores are as of our last collection on 17 Oct 2026, not the live upstream state.