Description
A vulnerability was detected in Fdawgs node-poppler up to 9.1.2/10.0.1. The impacted element is the function pdfInfo/pdfToText/pdfToCairo/pdfToPpm/pdfImages/pdfToHtml/pdfToPs/pdfFonts/pdfDetach/pdfAttach/pdfSeparate/pdfUnite of the file src/index.js of the component Argument Injection Handler. Performing a manipulation of the argument file_path results in argument injection. The attack may be initiated remotely. The patch is named db6e3f79d3beb20601be7e59669c39811ae3c330. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.
References9
- github.com/Fdawgs/node-poppler/
- github.com/Fdawgs/node-poppler/commit/db6e3f79d3beb20601be7e596…
- github.com/Fdawgs/node-poppler/issues/822
- github.com/Fdawgs/node-poppler/pull/842
- vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2026-78637
- vuldb.com/submit/886399
- vuldb.com/vuln/394864
- vuldb.com/vuln/394864/cti
- github.com/Fdawgs/node-poppler/issues/822
Metrics
- CVSS 3.1
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7.3
HIGH
Score source: CNA
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L - CVSS 4.0
-
6.9
MEDIUM
Score source: CNA
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X - EPSS — exploit probability
- 0% percentile: 35 · as of 9 November 2026
- CWE
- CWE-74CWE-88
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