{"id":"CVE-2020-37282","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2020-37282","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T23:29:55.418Z","title":"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().","description":"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.","published":"2026-10-14T15:17:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-26T17:17:11.000Z","status":"Deferred","sourceIdentifier":"disclosure@vulncheck.com","cvss":{"version":"4.0","score":9.3,"severity":"CRITICAL","vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/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/M"},"cwe":["CWE-78"],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.03037,"percentile":0.87416,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[{"date":"2026-10-15","score":0.03037,"percentile":0.87273}]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (3.04%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[{"kind":"new","label":"New CVE","at":"2026-10-14T15:17:00.000Z","detail":{"score":"9.3","severity":"CRITICAL","publishedAt":"2026-10-14T15:16:59.520Z"},"summary":"New CVE, critical severity (CVSS 9.3)."}],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9p64-h5q4-phpm","source":"disclosure@vulncheck.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/vworld4u/office-converter/blob/b1ea855d0001dc7a5d66343698634dbc06b72c2d/index.js#L19-L20","source":"disclosure@vulncheck.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/vworld4u/office-converter/pull/9","source":"disclosure@vulncheck.com"},{"url":"https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/office-converter-through-1.0.2-os-command-injection-via-filename-in-generatepdf","source":"disclosure@vulncheck.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/vworld4u/office-converter/pull/9","source":"134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-37282","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}