Medium
Security advisory
Insufficient escaping of the LaTeX preamble made it possible for site administrators to read files available to the HTTP server system account.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2021-40694
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 07:09 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Insufficient escaping of the LaTeX preamble made it possible for site administrators to read files available to the HTTP server system account.
osv:CVE-2021-40694
Complete source record
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