Vulnerability Report

CVE-2013-1948

RCE

Title: Rob Westgeest Md2Pdf RCE

RCE

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2013-1948.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Apr 25, 2013

Modified Date Apr 29, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 10.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.74%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2013-1948: converter.rb in the md2pdf gem 0.0.1 for Ruby allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a filename.

Impacted Vendors

yukihiro_matsumoto 1

ruby-lang 1

rob_westgeest 1

Reference Links

http://osvdb.org/92290 http://vapid.dhs.org/advisories/md2pdf-remote-exec.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/59061 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/83416 http://osvdb.org/92290 http://vapid.dhs.org/advisories/md2pdf-remote-exec.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/59061 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/83416

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

10.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2013-1948 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

April 29, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 11, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

April 25, 2013 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:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.