Vulnerability · Published Jan 22, 2024 · Assigned by GitHub_M

CVE-2023-44395Autolab has Path Traversal vulnerability in Assessment functionality

Medium 4.9

In plain English

A medium-severity path traversal in Autolab from autolab. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.6% (higher than 49% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)4.9Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.6%top 50.9% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

Autolab is a course management service that enables instructors to offer autograded programming assignments to their students over the Web. Path traversal vulnerabilities were discovered in Autolab's assessment functionality in versions of Autolab prior to 2.12.0, whereby instructors can perform arbitrary file reads. Version 2.12.0 contains a patch. There are no feasible workarounds for this issue.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
autolab	Autolab	< 2.12.0

Weakness: CWE-22 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

References

https://github.com/autolab/Autolab/security/advisories/GHSA-h8wq-ghfq-5hfx x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/autolab/Autolab/releases/tag/v2.12.0 x_refsource_MISC
https://www.stackhawk.com/blog/rails-path-traversal-guide-examples-and-prevention/ x_refsource_MISC