Joplin is an open source note-taking and to-do application that organises notes and lists into notebooks. From 1.4.0 until 3.7.2, packages/renderer/MdToHtml/rules/katex.ts enables KaTeX's trust option for note content, allowing a note author to place a \href URL into rendered output without passing Joplin's normal URL allowlist. On Windows, clicking a link whose target is an attacker-controlled UNC path causes pathExists() to initiate SMB authentication and disclose the current user's NTLMv2 challenge-response without a warning. The unfiltered URL can also invoke other registered URL handlers, but the credential disclosure through KaTeX \href is the distinguishing demonstrated impact. This issue is fixed in version 3.7.2.
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| Description | Joplin is an open source note-taking and to-do application that organises notes and lists into notebooks. From 1.4.0 until 3.7.2, packages/renderer/MdToHtml/rules/katex.ts enables KaTeX's trust option for note content, allowing a note author to place a \href URL into rendered output without passing Joplin's normal URL allowlist. On Windows, clicking a link whose target is an attacker-controlled UNC path causes pathExists() to initiate SMB authentication and disclose the current user's NTLMv2 challenge-response without a warning. The unfiltered URL can also invoke other registered URL handlers, but the credential disclosure through KaTeX \href is the distinguishing demonstrated impact. This issue is fixed in version 3.7.2. | |
| Title | Joplin: KaTeX `trust:true` enables URL-allowlist bypass leading to NTLMv2 credential theft via UNC path on Windows | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-200 CWE-522 CWE-829 |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
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Updated: 2026-09-21T20:52:11.164Z
Reserved: 2026-05-30T02:43:33.106Z
Link: CVE-2026-49449
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-09-21T21:17:03.593
Modified: 2026-09-21T21:17:03.593
Link: CVE-2026-49449
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