CVE-2006-5869 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

pstotext before 1.9 allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a file name.

Published: 2006-11-26

Score: 5.1 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:pstotext:pstotext:1.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
Debian DSA	DSA-1220-1	New pstotext packages fix arbitrary shell command execution
EUVD	EUVD-2006-5853	pstotext before 1.9 allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a file name.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity High

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00573.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=356988
http://secunia.com/advisories/20012
http://secunia.com/advisories/23135
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1220
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17897
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21299
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1707

History

Tue, 15 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	epss `{'score': 0.0055}`	epss `{'score': 0.00573}`

Subscriptions

Pstotext Pstotext

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2006-11-26T22:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-07T20:04:55.604Z

Reserved: 2006-11-14T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2006-5869

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2006-11-26T22:07:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2006-5869

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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