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CVE-2013-1933 (GCVE-0-2013-1933)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2013-04-25 23:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 15:20
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Summary
The extract_from_ocr function in lib/docsplit/text_extractor.rb in the Karteek Docsplit (karteek-docsplit) gem 0.5.4 for Ruby allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a PDF filename.
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CWE
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2013-04-08 00:00
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