CVE-2026-23878 (GCVE-0-2026-23878)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-01-19 18:08 – Updated: 2026-01-20 21:40
VLAI
Title
HotCRP vulnerable to exposure of submitted documents
Summary
HotCRP is conference review software. Starting in commit aa20ef288828b04550950cf67c831af8a525f508 and prior to commit ceacd5f1476458792c44c6a993670f02c984b4a0, authors with at least one submission on a HotCRP site could use the document API to download any documents (PDFs, attachments) associated with any submission. The problem was patched in commit ceacd5f1476458792c44c6a993670f02c984b4a0.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-201 - Insertion of Sensitive Information Into Sent Data
Assigner
References
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Vendor Product Version
kohler hotcrp Affected: >= aa20ef288828b04550950cf67c831af8a525f508, < ceacd5f1476458792c44c6a993670f02c984b4a0
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