CVE-2007-6358: Glyph And Cog Pdftops

Medium severity, CVSS 4.9. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

pdftops.pl before 1.20 in alternate pdftops filter allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the pdfin.[PID].tmp temporary file, which is created when pdftops reads a PDF file from stdin, such as when pdftops is invoked by CUPS.

Affected products

• Glyph And Cog Pdftops: up to and including 1.1.19rc1

Published 2007-12-15. Last modified 2026-06-16.