CVE-2023-44395

Autolab has Path Traversal vulnerability in Assessment functionality

Severity Score

6.5

*CVSS v3.1

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

Track

*SSVC

Descriptions

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.

Autolab es un servicio de gestión de cursos que permite a los profesores ofrecer tareas de programación con calificación automática a sus estudiantes a través de la Web. Se descubrieron vulnerabilidades de path traversal en la funcionalidad de evaluación de Autolab en versiones de Autolab anteriores a la 2.12.0, mediante las cuales los instructores pueden realizar lecturas de archivos arbitrarias. La versión 2.12.0 contiene un parche. No existen workarounds viables para este problema.

*Credits: N/A

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

None

Availability

None

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

High

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

None

Availability

None

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:Track

Exploitation

None

Automatable

Tech. Impact

Partial

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2023-09-28 CVE Reserved
2024-01-22 CVE Published
2024-08-23 CVE Updated
2024-12-22 EPSS Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date
---------- First Exploit

CWE

CWE-22: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

CAPEC

References (3)

URL	Tag	Source
https://github.com/autolab/Autolab/releases/tag/v2.12.0	Release Notes
https://www.stackhawk.com/blog/rails-path-traversal-guide-examples-and-prevention	Technical Description

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC
https://github.com/autolab/Autolab/security/advisories/GHSA-h8wq-ghfq-5hfx	2024-01-29

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Autolabproject Search vendor "Autolabproject"		Autolab Search vendor "Autolabproject" for product "Autolab"				< 2.12.0 Search vendor "Autolabproject" for product "Autolab" and version " < 2.12.0"		-		Affected