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CVE-2009-2944 json

Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in the teximg plugin in ikiwiki before 3.1415926 and 2.x before 2.53.4 allows context-dependent attacker…

published 2009-08-31 17 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2009-2931

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.8%
EPSS 1.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 78%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in the teximg plugin in ikiwiki before 3.1415926 and 2.x before 2.53.4 allows context-dependent attackers to read arbitrary files via crafted TeX commands.

Patch / fix

  • ikiwiki Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 3.1415926

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2009-2944

  • ikiwiki openSUSE Tumbleweed 3.20200202.3-2.7

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10860-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2009-2944 updated

ikiwiki: arbitrary file read via crafted TeX commands

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.80% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 78% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

References

Sources

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