CVE-2021-40694
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-01-21 18:17
Modified
2024-08-04 02:51
Severity ?
Summary
Insufficient escaping of the LaTeX preamble made it possible for site administrators to read files available to the HTTP server system account.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2043421Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2043421Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
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