{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 2 products.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-38745 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Upgrade to a fixed version.","what":"CVE-2023-38745 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 25 Jul 2023. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2023-38745 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2023-38745 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 25 Jul 2023. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-38745 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Debian Debian Linux. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-38745/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-38745/index.md)","id":"CVE-2023-38745","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-38745/index.md","name":"CVE-2023-38745","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-9hpj-m9v9-5wvw","JLSEC-2026-500","UBUNTU-CVE-2023-38745","openSUSE-SU-2024:13246-1"],"analysis":{"component_type":"developer_tool","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["data_modify","code_execution"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":true,"product_category":"Pandoc document converter","requires_auth":"none","summary":"Attackers can overwrite arbitrary files via crafted image elements in Pandoc when using specific output options, potentially leading to code execution.","user_interaction":"required","vuln_class":"path_traversal"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"mitre","cpe":[{"product":"debian_linux","vendor":"debian"},{"product":"pandoc","vendor":"pandoc"}],"cvss":{"score":6.3,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[],"description":"Pandoc before 3.1.6 allows arbitrary file write: this can be triggered by providing a crafted image element in the input when generating files via the --extract-media option or outputting to PDF format. This allows an attacker to create or overwrite arbitrary files, depending on the privileges of the process running Pandoc. It only affects systems that pass untrusted user input to Pandoc and allow Pandoc to be used to produce a PDF or with the --extract-media option. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2023-35936 (failure to properly account for double encoded path names).","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"Path traversal in n/a","id":"CVE-2023-38745","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"debian:debian_linux","products":["debian:debian_linux"],"type":"path_traversal","year":"2023"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":6,"next":{"headline":"Memory corruption in CX-Programmer","id":"CVE-2023-38746"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Denial of service in CJ2H CPU Unit","id":"CVE-2023-38744"},"products":["n/a"],"published":"2023-07-25","related":[{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"ProFTPD Improper Access Control","id":"CVE-2015-3306","kev_date_added":"2026-10-08","published":"2015-05-18"},{"cvss_score":9.9,"headline":"RoundCube Webmail Deserialization of Untrusted Data","id":"CVE-2025-49113","kev_date_added":"2026-02-20","published":"2025-06-02"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"GNU InetUtils Argument Injection","id":"CVE-2026-24061","kev_date_added":"2026-01-26","published":"2026-01-21"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions","id":"CVE-2025-39682","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2025-09-05"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Mozilla Firefox Use-After-Free","id":"CVE-2024-9680","kev_date_added":"2024-10-15","published":"2024-10-09"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"RARLAB UnRAR Directory Traversal","id":"CVE-2022-30333","kev_date_added":"2022-08-09","published":"2022-05-09"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Roundcube Webmail SQL Injection","id":"CVE-2021-44026","kev_date_added":"2023-06-22","published":"2021-11-19"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"total"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2025-11-04","vendors":["n/a"]},"summary":"Attackers can overwrite arbitrary files via crafted image elements in Pandoc when using specific output options, potentially leading to code execution.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-38745/"}