CVE-2020-37282
OS command injection in office-converter via crafted filename
Is CVE-2020-37282 being exploited?
Not confirmed. CVE-2020-37282 does not appear in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, which records only exploitation that has been observed and reported publicly. That is evidence of absence of a report, not evidence the flaw is unattacked.
How severe is CVE-2020-37282?
CVE-2020-37282 is rated Critical with a CVSS score of 9.3. Severity describes how bad exploitation would be, not how likely it is: pair it with exploitation evidence before deciding what to patch first.
Is there a patch for CVE-2020-37282?
Yes. A fix has been recorded for CVE-2020-37282. The vendor advisory is the authority on the exact fixed version — apply it from there rather than from a summary.
What does CVE-2020-37282 affect?
CVE-2020-37282 affects office-converter <= 1.0.2, Node.js applications using office-converter, Servers invoking unoconv via this package. Confirm the exact affected versions against the vendor advisory before deciding you are exposed.
What should I do about CVE-2020-37282?
Remove/block package, validate/sanitize filenames, isolate affected services; apply vendor patch when available.
Exploitation status reflects CISA's KEV catalog as we last synced it. Check the catalog directly.
Attacker-controlled filename can inject shell metacharacters to execute arbitrary commands as the Node.js process (remote code execution).
Immediate action required
- affected<= 1.0.2
As published in the CVE Program record. A version outside these ranges is not a statement that it is unaffected — vendors sometimes understate a range, and distribution-backported builds carry upstream numbers that do not reflect what was patched into them.