Bug 2043421 (CVE-2021-40694) - CVE-2021-40694 moodle: arbitrary file read by site administrators via LaTeX preamble
Summary: CVE-2021-40694 moodle: arbitrary file read by site administrators via LaTeX p...
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: CVE-2021-40694
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 2043422 2043423
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2022-01-21 08:46 UTC by Dhananjay Arunesh
Modified: 2022-01-21 09:32 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2022-01-21 09:32:11 UTC
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Description Dhananjay Arunesh 2022-01-21 08:46:07 UTC 
Insufficient escaping of the LaTeX preamble made it possible for site administrators to read files available to the HTTP server system account.

References:
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=427106
Comment 1 Dhananjay Arunesh 2022-01-21 08:46:32 UTC 
Created moodle tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-7 [bug 2043423]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 2043422]
Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2022-01-21 09:32:10 UTC 
This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.
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