CVE-2019-12138

HIGH 7.8CVE-2019-12138 · Published 16/05/2019 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2019-12138 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.8) vulnerability affecting macdown (macdown project).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.86%, higher than 58.5% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
macdown macdown_project	`= 0.7.1`	No fix yet

MacDown 0.7.1 allows directory traversal, for execution of arbitrary programs, via a file:/// or ../ substring in a shared note.

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