CVE-2026-81659 PUBLISHED

Flowintel Note PDF Export Allows Arbitrary Local File Read via Pandoc/XeLaTeX Processing

Assigner: CIRCL
Reserved: 27.08.2026 Published: 27.08.2026 Updated: 27.08.2026

Affected versions of Flowintel allow attacker-controlled note content to be processed by Pandoc and XeLaTeX during PDF export in a way that can cause local files on the Flowintel server to be read and incorporated into the generated export.

Metrics

CVSS 4.0

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 7.1

Exploitability Metrics		Vulnerable System Impact Metrics		Subsequent System Impact Metrics
Attack Vector	Network	Confidentiality	High	Confidentiality	None
Attack Complexity	Low	Integrity	None	Integrity	None
Attack Requirements	None	Availability	None	Availability	None
Privileges Required	Low
User Interaction	None

CVSS 4.0

Product Status

Vendor	flowintel
Product	flowintel
Versions	Default: unaffected affected from 0 to 3.3.0 (incl.)

Credits

Jeroen Pinoy finder
David Cruciani remediation developer

References

Problem Types

CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') CWE

Impacts

CAPEC-126 Path Traversal