GHSA-23fx-92m6-4f2g

pretalx allows path traversal in HTML export

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2023-28458

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
PyPI	pretalx	>= 2.3.1, < 2.3.2	2.3.2

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

pretalx 2.3.1 before 2.3.2 allows path traversal in HTML export (a non-default feature). Organizers can trigger the overwriting (with the standard pretalx 404 page content) of an arbitrary file.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-28458 advisory
https://github.com/pretalx/pretalx/commit/60722c43cf975f319e94102e6bff320723776890 web
https://github.com/pretalx/pretalx package
https://github.com/pretalx/pretalx/releases/tag/v2.3.2 web
https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/pretalx/PYSEC-2023-40.yaml web
https://pretalx.com/p/news/security-release-232 web
https://www.sonarsource.com/blog/pretalx-vulnerabilities-how-to-get-accepted-at-every-conference web