A flaw was found in pdfTeX. Insufficient sanitizing in the TeX notation filter resulted in an arbitrary file read risk on sites where pdfTeX is available, such as those with TeX Live installed.

Metrics

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00634.

Exploitation none

Automatable yes

Technical Impact partial

Affected Vendors & Products

Vendors Products
Moodle
  • Moodle

Configuration 1 [-]

OR cpe:2.3:a:moodle:moodle:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:moodle:moodle:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:moodle:moodle:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2024-3318 A flaw was found in pdfTeX. Insufficient sanitizing in the TeX notation filter resulted in an arbitrary file read risk on sites where pdfTeX is available, such as those with TeX Live installed.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-vjmm-r9gg-425m Moodle has arbitrary file read risk through pdfTeX
Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References
Link Providers
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2304254 cve-icon cve-icon
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=461194 cve-icon cve-icon
History

Sun, 13 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.0005}

 epss

{'score': 0.00054}

Mon, 10 Feb 2025 23:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Moodle
Moodle moodle
Weaknesses CWE-1287
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:moodle:moodle:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Moodle
Moodle moodle
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Thu, 07 Nov 2024 13:30:00 +0000

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Description A flaw was found in pdfTeX. Insufficient sanitizing in the TeX notation filter resulted in an arbitrary file read risk on sites where pdfTeX is available, such as those with TeX Live installed.
Title Moodle: arbitrary file read risk through pdftex
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N'}
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: fedora

Published:

Updated: 2025-02-10T22:27:06.037Z

Reserved: 2024-08-13T07:15:00.597Z

Link: CVE-2024-43426

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Updated: 2024-11-07T14:43:03.062Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2024-11-07T14:15:15.510

Modified: 2025-08-05T18:33:37.703

Link: CVE-2024-43426

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