Command Injection Affecting rxiv-maker package, versions [,1.8.9)
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- published5 Dec 2025
- disclosed2 Dec 2025
- creditUnknown
Introduced: 2 Dec 2025
New CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-78 (opens in a new tab)Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) is a category system for software weaknesses
How to fix?
Upgrade rxiv-maker to version 1.8.9 or higher.
Overview
rxiv-maker is a Write scientific preprints in Markdown. Generate publication-ready PDFs efficiently.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Command Injection due to improper handling of shell commands. The upgrade command uses shell=True, which allows shell injection.