[ CVE-2026-110636 · Published 14 Oct 2026 ]
Vulnerability in revolunet pypdftk
CVSS 9.8
EPSS 2%No fix listed yet
[ Why it matters ]Priority signals
- Public proof-of-concept exploit exists (CISA SSVC)
- Critical severity: CVSS 9.8
[ Description ]Official description
pypdftk through 0.5 contains an OS command injection vulnerability in fill_form(), dump_data_fields(), and pdftk_cmd_util() that builds shell commands from caller-supplied paths. Attackers controlling pdf_path or out_file can inject shell metacharacters interpreted by subprocess.Popen with shell=True to execute OS commands as the Python process.
[ Fixes ]Fixes and patches
No fix or interim patch is linked from our sources yet. Check the vendor references below and limit exposure of affected systems until a fix is available.