CVE-2015-8557 (GCVE-0-2015-8557)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-01-08 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 08:20
VLAI
Summary
The FontManager._get_nix_font_path function in formatters/img.py in Pygments 1.2.2 through 2.0.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a font name.
CWE
  • n/a
References
Date Public
2015-09-28 00:00
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