{"id":"CVE-2023-32668","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2023-32668","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T08:10:42.936Z","title":"LuaTeX before 1.17.0 allows a document (compiled with the default settings) to make arbitrary network requests.","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.","published":"2023-05-11T06:15:10.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T05:59:21.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":5.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"},"cwe":[],"affected":["luatex project/luatex","miktex/miktex","tug/tex live"],"epss":{"score":0.0037,"percentile":0.30741,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.37%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://gitlab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/texlive/luatex/-/blob/b266ef076c96b382cd23a4c93204e247bb98626a/source/texk/web2c/luatexdir/ChangeLog#L1-L3","tags":["Release Notes"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://gitlab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/texlive/luatex/-/tags/1.17.0","tags":["Patch"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2023-May/049188.html","tags":["Issue Tracking","Mailing List","Mitigation"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://tug.org/~mseven/luatex.html#luasocket","tags":["Exploit","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://gitlab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/texlive/luatex/-/blob/b266ef076c96b382cd23a4c93204e247bb98626a/source/texk/web2c/luatexdir/ChangeLog#L1-L3","tags":["Release Notes"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://gitlab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/texlive/luatex/-/tags/1.17.0","tags":["Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/10/msg00032.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2023-May/049188.html","tags":["Issue Tracking","Mailing List","Mitigation"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://tug.org/~mseven/luatex.html#luasocket","tags":["Exploit","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-32668","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}