CVE-2003-0434
HIGH · CVSS 7.5EPSS 40.9%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.5 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- EPSS score
- 40.9% (99th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2003-0428)
- Published
- July 24, 2003
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2003-0428 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 8, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- adobe / acrobat
- mandrakesoft / mandrake linux
- mandrakesoft / mandrake linux
- mandrakesoft / mandrake linux corporate server
- redhat / enterprise linux
- redhat / enterprise linux
- redhat / enterprise linux
- redhat / linux
- redhat / linux
- redhat / linux
- redhat / linux
- redhat / linux
- redhat / linux advanced workstation
- xpdf / xpdf
Certified products that may be affected
4 FIPS 140 or Common Criteria certified products, from automated matching by sec-certs.org.
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 EUS - Red Hat, Inc. - Common Criteria CCEVS-VR-VID-11379-2024 - archived
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Version 7.1 - Red Hat, Inc. - Common Criteria BSI-DSZ-CC-0949-2017 - archived
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Version 7.1 - Red Hat, Inc. - Common Criteria BSI-DSZ-CC-0999-2016 - archived
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 OpenSSL Module, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 OpenSSL Module - Red Hat®, Inc. - FIPS 140 2441 - historical
References
- http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2003-June/005719.html
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=105777963019186&w=2
- http://secunia.com/advisories/9037
- http://secunia.com/advisories/9038
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/200132(US Government Resource)
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2003:071
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-196.html(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-197.html(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A664
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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