Medium severity · published Jan 21, 2022
CVE-2021-40694
Insufficient escaping of the LaTeX preamble made it possible for site administrators to read files available to the HTTP server system account
4.9
CVSS
0.9%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Insufficient escaping of the LaTeX preamble made it possible for site administrators to read files available to the HTTP server system account.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
High
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.9% · higher than 60% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
MO
moodle ·
3.11 to 3.11.2, 3.10 to 3.10.6, 3.9 to 3.9.9 and earlier unsupported versions · source: vendor, NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-40694
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-40694
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2043421
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