CVE-2024-43426

Moodle: arbitrary file read risk through pdftex

State: Published
Severity: 7.5 High
Published: Nov 7, 2024
Updated: Feb 10, 2025
Reserved: Aug 13, 2024

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.5 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N	fedora

Weaknesses

CWE-1287 Improper Validation of Specified Type of Input

Affected Products

Product	Versions
moodle	before 4.1.12Affected 4.2 to before 4.2.9Affected 4.3 to before 4.3.6Affected 4.4 to before 4.4.2Affected

References

RHBZ#2304254issue-tracking
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=461194

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