🛡️ CVE-2023-32668
🟡 CVSS 5.5 — Medium ⚠️ Exploit Public NVD
5.5
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

LuaTeX before 1.17.0 allows a document (compiled with the default settings) to make arbitrary network requests. This occurs because full access to the socket library is permitted by default, as stated in the documentation. This also affects TeX Live before 2023 r66984 and MiKTeX before 23.5.

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2023-05-11
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2025-11-03

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
luatex 0.27.0 1.17.0
miktex 2.9.0 23.5
tex-live 2009 2023

References

Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Mitigation https://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2023-May/049188.html
Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Mitigation https://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2023-May/049188.html

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