7.5
CVSSv2

CVE-2021-43113

Published: 15/12/2021 Updated: 24/03/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 10
CVSS v3 Base Score: 9.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 668
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

iTextPDF in iText 7 and up to (excluding 4.4.13.3) 7.1.17 allows command injection via a CompareTool filename that is mishandled on the gs (aka Ghostscript) command line in GhostscriptHelper.java.

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debian debian linux 10.0

debian debian linux 11.0

Vendor Advisories

Debian Bug report logs - #1014597 libitext5-java: new version 55133 addresses CVE-2021-43113 Package: libitext5-java; Maintainer for libitext5-java is Debian Java Maintainers <pkg-java-maintainers@listsaliothdebianorg>; Source for libitext5-java is src:libitext5-java (PTS, buildd, popcon) Reported by: Thomas Uhle <t ...
It was discovered that the CompareTool of iText, a Java PDF library which uses the external ghostscript software to compare PDFs at a pixel level, allowed command injection when parsing a specially crafted filename For the stable distribution (bullseye), this problem has been fixed in version 55132-1+deb11u1 We recommend that you upgrade your ...