CVE-2023-38745

Summary

CVECVE-2023-38745
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-07-25 04:15:00 UTC
Updated2024-03-31 03:15:00 UTC
DescriptionPandoc before 3.1.6 allows arbitrary file write: this can be triggered by providing a crafted image element in the input when generating files via the --extract-media option or outputting to PDF format. This allows an attacker to create or overwrite arbitrary files, depending on the privileges of the process running Pandoc. It only affects systems that pass untrusted user input to Pandoc and allow Pandoc to be used to produce a PDF or with the --extract-media option. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2023-35936 (failure to properly account for double encoded path names).

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Application Pandoc Pandoc All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[SECURITY] [DLA 3507-1] pandoc security update MLIST lists.debian.org
FEDORA-2024-b458482d48 lists.fedoraproject.org
FEDORA-2024-6ad6b9f417 lists.fedoraproject.org
FEDORA-2024-7d83cbccb6 lists.fedoraproject.org
Fix new variant of the vulnerability in CVE-2023-35936. · jgm/pandoc@eddedbf · GitHub MISC github.com
Comparing 3.1.5...3.1.6 · jgm/pandoc · GitHub MISC github.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 285411 Fedora Security Update for ghc (FEDORA-2024-b458482d48)
  • 285420 Fedora Security Update for ghc (FEDORA-2024-6ad6b9f417)
  • 6000016 Debian Security Update for pandoc (DLA 3507-1)

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