CVE-2008-5743: Pdfjam

Medium severity, CVSS 6.9. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

pdfjam creates the (1) pdf90, (2) pdfjoin, and (3) pdfnup files with a predictable name, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack.

Affected products

• Pdfjam Pdfjam: version _nil_ only

Published 2008-12-26. Last modified 2026-06-16.