🛡️ CVE-2026-16766

🔴 CVSS 9.8 — Critical ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-78 NVD
9.8
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Catalyst::View::Wkhtmltopdf versions before 0.6.1 for Perl allow shell command injection (RCE) via PDF render options.

Options are passed directly to the wkhtmltopdf command without sanitization.

Any web application that passes user-controlled options such as the page_size, orientation or margins without validation allows shell command injection.

Version 0.6.0 was released with an incomplete fix for this issue.

Note that the wkhtmltopdf project is no longer being developed, and users of this package should migrate to alternative solutions.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-16766 is classified as CWE-78: OS Command Injection. Untrusted input reaches a shell command without neutralisation, so an attacker can run arbitrary operating system commands.

Affected software

CVE-2026-16766 is recorded against 1 package.

  • unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 25 July 2026 and last revised on 28 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

github.com
github.com
metacpan.org
www.openwall.com

Details

Severity CRITICAL
CVSS Score 9.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-78
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-07-25
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-07-28
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
unknown — —

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