CVE-2008-5843: Pdfjam

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple untrusted search path vulnerabilities in pdfjam allow local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse program in (1) the current working directory or (2) /var/tmp, related to the (a) pdf90, (b) pdfjoin, and (c) pdfnup scripts.

Affected products

• Pdfjam Pdfjam: version _nil_ only

Published 2009-01-05. Last modified 2026-06-16.