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HIGH

GHSA-67cx-rhhq-mfhq

High severity vulnerability that affects indico

Quick fix

GHSA-67cx-rhhq-mfhq — indico: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

pip install --upgrade 'indico>=2.1.10'

Details

## Local file disclosure through LaTeX injection

### Impact An external audit of the Indico codebase has discovered a vulnerability in Indico's LaTeX sanitization code, which could have malicious users to run unsafe LaTeX commands on the server. Such commands allowed for example to read local files (e.g. `indico.conf`).

As far as we know it is not possible to write files or execute code using this vulnerability.

### Patches You need to update to [Indico 2.2.3](https://github.com/indico/indico/releases/tag/v2.2.3) as soon as possible. We also released [Indico 2.1.10](https://github.com/indico/indico/releases/tag/v2.1.10) in case you cannot update to 2.2 for some reason. See https://docs.getindico.io/en/stable/installation/upgrade/ for instructions on how to update.

### Workarounds Setting `XELATEX_PATH = None` in `indico.conf` will result in an error when building a PDF, but without being able to run xelatex, the vulnerability cannot be abused.

### For more information If you have any questions or comments about this advisory: * Open a thread in [our forum](https://talk.getindico.io/) * Email us privately at [indico-team@cern.ch](mailto:indico-team@cern.ch)

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Affected packages

PyPI/indico
Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 2.1.10
Fixpip install --upgrade 'indico>=2.1.10'
PyPI/indico
Introduced in: 2.2.0Fixed in: 2.2.3
Fixpip install --upgrade 'indico>=2.2.3'

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