CVE-2024-43426 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable yes

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Moodle	Moodle

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References

Link	Providers
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2304254
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=461194

History

Mon, 10 Feb 2025 23:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		Moodle Moodle moodle
Weaknesses		CWE-1287
CPEs		cpe:2.3:a:moodle:moodle::::::::
Vendors & Products		Moodle Moodle moodle
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Thu, 07 Nov 2024 13:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Description		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.
Title		Moodle: arbitrary file read risk through pdftex
References		https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2304254 https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=461194
Metrics		cvssV3_1 `{'score': 7.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: fedora

Published: 2024-11-07T13:22:42.839Z

Updated: 2025-02-10T22:27:06.037Z

Reserved: 2024-08-13T07:15:00.597Z

Link: CVE-2024-43426

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-11-07T14:43:03.062Z

NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2024-11-07T14:15:15.510

Modified: 2025-02-10T23:15:14.460

Link: CVE-2024-43426

Redhat

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