CVE-2026-23878

6.5 mediumEPSS 0.3%

Medium (6.5) in hotcrp hotcrp. EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

HotCRP is conference review software. Starting in commit aa20ef288828b04550950cf67c831af8a525f508 and prior to commit ceacd5f1476458792c44c6a993670f02c984b4a0, authors with at least one submission on a HotCRP site could use the document API to download any documents (PDFs, attachments) associated with any submission. The problem was patched in commit ceacd5f1476458792c44c6a993670f02c984b4a0.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

6.5 medium

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 23% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-201
Published: 2026-01-19
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

hotcrp:hotcrp

References

https://github.com/kohler/hotcrp/commit/aa20ef288828b04550950cf67c831af8a525f508
https://github.com/kohler/hotcrp/commit/ceacd5f1476458792c44c6a993670f02c984b4a0
https://github.com/kohler/hotcrp/security/advisories/GHSA-vh3x-xwj4-jvqx

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