Arbitrary File Read Affecting moodle/moodle package, versions <3.9.10>=3.10.0, <3.10.7>=3.11.0, <3.11.3


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.07% (31st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PHP-MOODLEMOODLE-2359045
  • published23 Jan 2022
  • disclosed23 Jan 2022
  • creditraisin_bugbounty

Introduced: 23 Jan 2022

CVE-2021-40694  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade moodle/moodle to version 3.9.10, 3.10.7, 3.11.3 or higher.

Overview

moodle/moodle is a learning platform.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary File Read via insufficient escaping of the LaTeX preamble. Site administrators are able to read files available to the HTTP server system account.

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