FKIE_CVE-2024-43426

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-11-07 14:15 - Updated: 2025-08-05 18:33
Severity ?
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Summary
A flaw was found in pdfTeX. Insufficient sanitizing in the TeX notation filter resulted in an arbitrary file read risk on sites where pdfTeX is available, such as those with TeX Live installed.
References
patrick@puiterwijk.orghttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2304254Permissions Required
patrick@puiterwijk.orghttps://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=461194Vendor Advisory
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