CVE-2003-0434 describes a critical vulnerability in various PDF viewers, including Adobe Acrobat 5.06 and Xpdf 1.01, allowing remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands. This is achieved by embedding shell metacharacters within hyperlinks in a PDF document. With a CVSS score of 7.5 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P), it represents a high-severity threat that can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity, leading to potential compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, exploit code is publicly available via ExploitDB (EDB-22771), and the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion with over 10 mentions.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
5.0.6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat:5.0.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:xpdf:xpdf:1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:mandrakesoft:mandrake_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
9.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:mandrakesoft:mandrake_linux:9.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:mandrakesoft:mandrake_linux_corporate_server:2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.