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high 7.5

CVE-2024-43426 json

Moodle: arbitrary file read risk through pdftex

published 2y ago modified 2mo ago also BIT-moodle-2024-43426 , EUVD-2024-3318 , GHSA-vjmm-r9gg-425m

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.7%
EPSS 0.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 54%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • packagist moodle/moodle 4.1.12, 4.2.9, 4.3.6, 4.4.2
  • bitnami moodle 4.1.12, 4.2.9, 4.3.6, 4.4.2
  • moodle moodle 4.1.12, 4.2.9, 4.3.6, 4.4.2

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red hat product security vex CVE-2024-43426 updated cvss 7.5

moodle: Arbitrary file read risk through pdfTeX

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2y ago

Exploit prediction

0.71% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 54% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-11).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
GitHub 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
OSV 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
packagist moodle/moodle
<4.1.12
>=4.2.0-beta, <4.2.9
>=4.3.0-beta, <4.3.6
>=4.4.0-beta, <4.4.2
4.1.12
4.2.9
4.3.6
4.4.2
bitnami moodle
>=4.1.0, <4.1.12
>=4.2.0, <4.2.9
>=4.3.0, <4.3.6
>=4.4.0, <4.4.2
4.1.12
4.2.9
4.3.6
4.4.2

Affected products

  • moodle moodle

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-1287 Improper Validation of Specified Type of Input

References

Sources

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