Bug 2334344

Summary:	CVE-2024-56527 moodle: Error function lacks an htmlspecialchars call for the error message. [fedora-41]
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	TEJ RATHI <trathi>
Component:	moodle	Assignee:	Gwyn Ciesla <gwync>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	41	CC:	gwync, igor.raits
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Whiteboard:	{"flaws": ["58b6fdd7-d6ce-41e6-b673-1713164d7921"]}
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Bug Blocks:	2334306

Description TEJ RATHI 2024-12-27 13:44:38 UTC

More information about this security flaw is available in the following bug:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2334306

Disclaimer: Community trackers are created by Red Hat Product Security team on a best effort basis. Package maintainers are required to ascertain if the flaw indeed affects their package, before starting the update process.

Comment 1 Sergio Basto 2025-03-06 00:56:24 UTC

CVE-2024-56527 identifies a vulnerability in TCPDF, a PHP library commonly used for generating PDF documents. In versions prior to 6.8.0, the Error function did not apply the htmlspecialchars function to error messages, leading to potential cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.