🛡️ CVE-2024-28245 — katex

🟡 CVSS 6.3 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-116 OSV
6.3
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

KaTeX's \includegraphics does not escape filename

Impact

KaTeX users who render untrusted mathematical expressions could encounter malicious input using \includegraphics that runs arbitrary JavaScript, or generate invalid HTML.

Patches

Upgrade to KaTeX v0.16.10 to remove this vulnerability.

Workarounds

  • Avoid use of or turn off the trust option, or set it to forbid \includegraphics commands.
  • Forbid inputs containing the substring "\\includegraphics".
  • Sanitize HTML output from KaTeX.

Details

\includegraphics did not properly quote its filename argument, allowing it to generate invalid or malicious HTML that runs scripts.

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How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity low, availability low.

Weakness class

CVE-2024-28245 is classified as CWE-116: Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output. Output is emitted without encoding it for the context it lands in, so data is interpreted as markup or code.

Affected software

CVE-2024-28245 is recorded against 1 package.

  • katex

Timeline and source

Published on 25 March 2024 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from OSV.

References

github.com (Web)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)

CVE-2024-28245 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 6.3
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CWE CWE-116
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2024-03-25
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-06-17

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
katex — —

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