CVE-2020-37282

CVSS 9.8 (critical) · published 2026-10-14

office-converter through 1.0.2 contains an OS command injection vulnerability that allows attackers to execute commands by supplying a crafted fileName to generatePdf() or generateHtml(). Attackers can embed $(...), backticks, or a closing quote with shell metacharacters in the file name, which is concatenated into an unoconv command run via child_process.exec(), executing commands with Node.js process privileges.

Weakness: CWE-78

Source: NVD CVE-2020-37282

References

• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9p64-h5q4-phpm
• https://github.com/vworld4u/office-converter/blob/b1ea855d0001dc7a5d66343698634dbc06b72c2d/index.js#L19-L20
• https://github.com/vworld4u/office-converter/pull/9
• https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/office-converter-through-1.0.2-os-command-injection-via-filename-in-generatepdf
• https://github.com/vworld4u/office-converter/pull/9

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