Riskcovery

CVE-2026-23878

HotCRP vulnerable to exposure of submitted documents

State
Published
Severity
6.5 Medium
Published
Jan 19, 2026
Updated
Jan 20, 2026
Reserved
Jan 16, 2026

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Description

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.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.16.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-201 Insertion of Sensitive Information Into Sent Data

Affected Products

ProductVersions
hotcrpkohler
  • >= aa20ef288828b04550950cf67c831af8a525f508, < ceacd5f1476458792c44c6a993670f02c984b4a0Affected

References

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