CVE-2026-23878CWE-201

HotCRP vulnerable to exposure of submitted documents

Medium · published January 19, 2026

CVSS v3.1
6.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
22.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
6.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00308 · 22.4th percentile
Weakness
CWE-201 · Insertion of Sensitive Information Into Sent Data
Published
2026-01-19T18:08Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 19 JAN 18:08Z
    HotCRP vulnerable to exposure of submitted documents
    cvelistv5