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Moodle: Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output (CVE-2021-40694)

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Moodle: Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output (CVE-2021-40694)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
09/29/2022
Created
10/06/2022
Added
10/05/2022
Modified
10/05/2022

Description

Insufficient escaping of the LaTeX preamble made it possible for site administrators to read files available to the HTTP server system account.

Solution(s)

  • moodle-upgrade-3_10_7
  • moodle-upgrade-3_11_3
  • moodle-upgrade-3_9_10

References

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