xml2rfc is vulnerable to arbitrary file reads through prepped files

Impact When generating PDF files, this vulnerability allows an attacker to read arbitrary files from the filesystem by injecting malicious link element into the prepped RFCXML. Workarounds Test untrusted input with link elements with rel="attachment" before processing. References This is related ...

Directory Traversal

Overview xml2rfc is a Xml2rfc generates RFCs and IETF drafts from document source in XML according to the IETF xml2rfc v2 and v3 vocabularies. Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Directory Traversal via the PDF generation process. An attacker can access arbitrary files on the...