CVE-2026-123198

CRITICAL
INFO Priority: 0.08 BB Relevance: 79/100
Published: 2026-11-05 Modified: 2026-11-12 First seen: 2026-11-05 Status: active

Attack Surface

Network Low Complexity No Auth No Interaction Conf. Impact Integ. Impact

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV: Network
AC: Low
PR: None
UI: None
S: X
AT: None
VC: High
VI: High
VA: High

Description

LMFDB before commit 01829bd contains a server-side template injection vulnerability in the render_knowl function that allows unauthenticated attackers to inject Jinja expressions via request parameters. Attackers can supply crafted query-string values or 'content' data to /knowledge/render/<ID> to reach Python builtins and execute operating system commands as the web application account.

Affected Software (2)

VendorProductVersion
LMFDB LMFDB 0 < 01829bd09b692c720aad30c952758a20630573d4
LMFDB LMFDB 0 < 01829bd09b692c720aad30c952758a20630573d4

Bug Bounty Relevance

79 / 100
✓ Network accessible
✓ No authentication
✓ Low complexity
✓ No user interaction

CVSS Score

9.3 / 10.0 v4.0
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

0.84%
Raw Score 0.008450
Percentile 58.6%
Date 2026-11-14

EPSS Trend

2026-11-14
0.00845
2026-11-13
0.00845
2026-11-12
0.00845
2026-11-10
0.00845
2026-11-09
0.00845
2026-11-08
0.00845
2026-11-07
0.00845
2026-11-06
0.00845

Intelligence Sources

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