Vulnerability Report

CVE-2009-1144

Title: Glyphandcog Xpdfreader RCE

Auth Bypass

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2009-1144.

CWE Category CWE-94

Published Date Apr 09, 2009

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 6.9 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.40%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2009-1144: Untrusted search path vulnerability in the Gentoo package of Xpdf before 3.02-r2 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse xpdfrc file in the current working directory, related to an unset SYSTEM_XPDFRC macro in a Gentoo build process that uses the poppler library.

Impacted Vendors

foolabs 1

xpdf 1

glyphandcog 1

Reference Links

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200023 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=242930 http://osvdb.org/53529 http://secunia.com/advisories/34610 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200904-07.xml http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34401 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200023 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=242930 http://osvdb.org/53529 http://secunia.com/advisories/34610 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200904-07.xml http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34401

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.9

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2009-1144 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

April 09, 2009 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.