PT-2025-29230 · Jgm+1 · Pandoc+1

Realestname · Published 2025-07-11 · Updated 2026-01-24 · CVE-2025-51591

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.1

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:P/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions JGM Pandoc version 3.6.4

Description A Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) issue exists in JGM Pandoc version 3.6.4. This flaw allows attackers to potentially compromise the entire infrastructure by injecting a crafted iframe. Reports indicate active exploitation of this issue, with hackers targeting Amazon Web Services (AWS) Instance Metadata Service (IMDS) to steal EC2 IAM credentials. The vulnerability allows attackers to make unauthorized requests to the AWS IMDS. The exploitation involves crafting malicious HTML iframe elements.

Recommendations Update to a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

Fix

SSRF

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-918

Related Identifiers

BDU:2025-13963

CVE-2025-51591

Affected Products

Debian

Pandoc

References · 75

• 🔥 https://github.com/RealestName/Vulnerability-Research/tree/main/CVE-2025-51591 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/Malayke/CVE-2025-51591-Pandoc-SSRF-POC · Exploit
• https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/10682 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/commit/67edf7ce7cd3563a180ae44bd122b012e22364f8 · Patch
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2025-13963 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-51591 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2025-51591 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-51591 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-51591 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-51591 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2025-51591 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-51591 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/discussions/11200 · Note
• https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/11261 · Note
• https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/8874 · Note