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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2003-0434 in the critical feed json

Various PDF viewers including (1) Adobe Acrobat 5.06 and (2) Xpdf 1.01 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metac…

published 2003-06-18 23 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2003-0428

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
40.9%
EPSS 40.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 98%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Various PDF viewers including (1) Adobe Acrobat 5.06 and (2) Xpdf 1.01 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in an embedded hyperlink.

Patch / fix

  • xpdf Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.02pl1-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2003-0434

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2003-0434 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 2.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 2.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2003:197
  • Red Hat Linux 7.1 Red Hat Linux 7.2 Red Hat Linux 7.3 Red Hat Linux 8.0 Red Hat Linux 9
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2003:196
  • Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2003:197

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-22771)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

40.94% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 98% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-22771 Adobe Acrobat Reader (UNIX) 5.0 6 / Xpdf 0.9x Hyperlinks - Arbitrary Command Execution remote, 2003-06-13

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.