Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-38745

Pandoc ≤ 3.1.6

Published
25 July 2023
Modified
04 November 2025
Patch / advisory
CVSS Score v3.1 6.3
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0025 17th percentile
Risk Priority 46 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2023-38745 is a medium-severity an unspecified weakness vulnerability in Pandoc Pandoc. Its CVSS base score is 6.3 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 17th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

Pandoc before 3.1.6 allows arbitrary file write: this can be triggered by providing a crafted image element in the input when generating files via the --extract-media option or outputting to PDF format. This allows an attacker to create or overwrite…

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arbitrary files, depending on the privileges of the process running Pandoc. It only affects systems that pass untrusted user input to Pandoc and allow Pandoc to be used to produce a PDF or with the --extract-media option. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2023-35936 (failure to properly account for double encoded path names).

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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Affected Assets

pandoc
pandoc
≤ 3.1.6
debian
debian linux
10.0

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References