CVE-2023-28459

State: Published
Severity: 6.5 Medium
Published: Apr 20, 2023
Updated: Feb 5, 2025
Reserved: Mar 15, 2023

Description

pretalx 2.3.1 before 2.3.2 allows path traversal in HTML export (a non-default feature). Users were able to upload crafted HTML documents that trigger the reading of arbitrary files.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	6.5 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

https://pretalx.com/p/news/security-release-232/
https://github.com/pretalx/pretalx/commit/60722c43cf975f319e94102e6bff320723776890
https://github.com/pretalx/pretalx/releases/tag/v2.3.2
https://www.sonarsource.com/blog/pretalx-vulnerabilities-how-to-get-accepted-at-every-conference/

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