CVE-2006-5869: Pstotext

Medium severity, CVSS 5.1. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

Affected products

• Pstotext Pstotext: version 1.9 only

Published 2006-11-26. Last modified 2026-06-16.