GHSA-vjmm-r9gg-425m

Moodle has arbitrary file read risk through pdfTeX

At a glance

Published
Updated
CVE
CVE-2024-43426
Aliases
BIT-moodle-2024-43426
CVSS_V3
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS_V4
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U

Description

A flaw was found in pdfTeX. Insufficient sanitizing in the TeX notation filter resulted in an arbitrary file read risk on sites where pdfTeX is available, such as those with TeX Live installed.

Affected packages

PackageVersions
Packagist · moodle/moodleintroduced 0, fixed 4.1.12
Packagist · moodle/moodleintroduced 4.2.0-beta, fixed 4.2.9
Packagist · moodle/moodleintroduced 4.3.0-beta, fixed 4.3.6
Packagist · moodle/moodleintroduced 4.4.0-beta, fixed 4.4.2

References

Sources

SourceLicence
OSV.devCC-BY 4.0 — GitHub Advisory Database