# CVE-2026-81659: Flowintel Note PDF Export Allows Arbitrary Local File Read via Pandoc/XeLaTeX Processing

- Severity: CVSS 7.1 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fix: a fix or patch is referenced
- Published: 2026-08-27 · Updated: 2026-08-27

## Affected

- flowintel: through 3.3.0

## Description

Affected versions of Flowintel allow attacker-controlled note content to be processed by Pandoc and XeLaTeX during PDF export in a way that can cause local files on the Flowintel server to be read and incorporated into the generated export.

## What to do

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## References

- https://github.com/flowintel/flowintel/commit/16f618fa36a72c4c5ca3ff0abf7dd67455318ef1
- https://github.com/flowintel/flowintel/commit/2ba9700a5473223639575050bda607f498add7c6

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