Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published May 11, 2023· Updated Nov 3, 2025

CVE-2023-32668

Description

LuaTeX before 1.17.0 allows a document (compiled with the default settings) to make arbitrary network requests. This occurs because full access to the socket library is permitted by default, as stated in the documentation. This also affects TeX Live before 2023 r66984 and MiKTeX before 23.5.

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Affected products

LuaTeX/LuaTeXdescription
LuaTeX/LuaTeXllm-create
Range: <1.17.0
MiKTeX/MiKTeXllm-create
Range: <23.5
TeX Users Group/TeX Livellm-fuzzy
Range: <2023 r66984
osv-coords
pkg:rpm/opensuse/texlive&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweed
Range: < 2023.20230311.svn34398-90.1

Patches

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References

gitlab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/texlive/luatex/-/blob/b266ef076c96b382cd23a4c93204e247bb98626a/source/texk/web2c/luatexdir/ChangeLogmitre
gitlab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/texlive/luatex/-/tags/1.17.0mitre
tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2023-May/049188.htmlmitre
tug.org/~mseven/luatex.htmlmitre

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