CVE-2024-43426 (GCVE-0-2024-43426)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-11-07 13:22
Modified
2025-02-10 22:27
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.
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