Bug 2379956

Summary: CVE-2025-51591 pandoc: Server-Side Request Forgery in Pandoc [fedora-42]
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Jon Moroney <jmoroney>
Component: pandocAssignee: Jens Petersen <petersen>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority: medium    
Version: 42CC: castedo, michel, petersen
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Whiteboard: {"flaws": ["72b33082-8eec-48b6-b980-41f8289080d9"]}
Fixed In Version: pandoc-3.1.11.1-33.fc42 Doc Type: ---
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Last Closed: 2025-08-15 01:03:51 UTC Type: ---
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Description Jon Moroney 2025-07-14 20:19:14 UTC
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The following link provides references to all essential vulnerability management information. If something is wrong or missing, please contact a member of PSIRT.
https://spaces.redhat.com/display/PRODSEC/Vulnerability+Management+-+Essential+Documents+for+Engineering+Teams

Comment 1 Jens Petersen 2025-08-04 09:24:28 UTC
I think the only thing I can do here is to patch the manpage to explain the potential threat.

The upstream commit related to this just updated the manual
to update about the potential threat of iframe use via pdf:
https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/commit/67edf7ce7cd3563a180ae44bd122b012e22364f8

The text appears in https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#a-note-on-security

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2025-08-06 10:48:42 UTC
FEDORA-2025-07fdd73bf0 (pandoc-3.1.11.1-33.fc42) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 42.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-07fdd73bf0

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2025-08-07 01:30:21 UTC
FEDORA-2025-07fdd73bf0 has been pushed to the Fedora 42 testing repository.
Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2025-07fdd73bf0`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-07fdd73bf0

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2025-08-15 01:03:51 UTC
FEDORA-2025-07fdd73bf0 (pandoc-3.1.11.1-33.fc42) has been pushed to the Fedora 42 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 5 Jens Petersen 2025-09-02 04:18:58 UTC
Further, I am enabling pandoc-server in pandoc-cli-3.1.11.1-34.1.fc42