CVE-2025-26525 (GCVE-0-2025-26525)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-02-24 19:31
Modified
2025-02-24 20:10
Severity ?
8.6 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-552 - Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties
Summary
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).
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Moodle Project moodle Version: 4.5.0   ≤
Version: 4.4.0   ≤
Version: 4.3.0   ≤
Version: 4.1.0   ≤
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