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SCA: security update for pretalx (GHSA-23fx-92m6-4f2g)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 408634

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - pretalx 2.3.1 before 2.3.2 allows path traversal in HTML export (a non-default feature). Organizers can
 trigger the overwriting (with the standard pretalx 404 page content) of an arbitrary file.
 (CVE-2023-28458)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-23fx-92m6-4f2g

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 408634

Version: Revision 1.14

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.2

Percentile: 0.01

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-28458

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Threat Score: 2.1

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/20/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/20/2023

Exploitable With

Metasploit (Pretalx Limited File Write to Remote Code Execution)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-28458

cwe: CWE-22