CVE-2021-40694 (GCVE-0-2021-40694)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-01-21 18:17
Modified
2024-08-04 02:51
Severity ?
CWE
  • arbitrary file read
Summary
Insufficient escaping of the LaTeX preamble made it possible for site administrators to read files available to the HTTP server system account.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a moodle Version: 3.11 to 3.11.2, 3.10 to 3.10.6, 3.9 to 3.9.9 and earlier unsupported versions
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