GHSA-wh3w-jcc7-mhmf

pretalx vulnerable to path traversal in HTML export

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) High CVE-2023-28459

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
PyPI	pretalx	< 2.3.2	2.3.2

Details

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

pretalx 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.

References

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

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-28459 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-2023-41.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