PT-2022-11303 · Latex+1 · Latex+1

Dhananjay Arunesh · Published 2021-09-13 · Updated 2024-03-06 · CVE-2021-40694

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

4.9

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions No specific software or versions are mentioned in the provided descriptions.

Description The issue is related to insufficient escaping of the LaTeX preamble, which allows site administrators to read files available to the HTTP server system account. This could potentially lead to unauthorized access to sensitive information.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-116

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2021-2787

ALT-PU-2021-3335

ALT-PU-2022-1641

BIT-MOODLE-2021-40694

CVE-2021-40694

GHSA-M37G-MWCG-7J7V

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Latex

References · 10

• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-40694 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/BIT-moodle-2021-40694 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-40694 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-40694 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2021-40694 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-m37g-mwcg-7j7v · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-40694 · Security Note
• https://github.com/moodle/moodle · Note
• https://t.me/cibsecurity/50710 · Telegram Post
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2043421 · Note