CVEvulnerability

CVE-2009-1171

4.3 MEDIUM Published 2009-03-30 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2009-03-30
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-20

Description

The TeX filter in Moodle 1.6 before 1.6.9+, 1.7 before 1.7.7+, 1.8 before 1.8.9, and 1.9 before 1.9.5 allows user-assisted attackers to read arbitrary files via an input command in a "$$" sequence, which causes LaTeX to include the contents of the file.

Affected configurations

• moodle moodle 1.6.0 • moodle moodle 1.6.1 • moodle moodle 1.6.2 • moodle moodle 1.6.3 • moodle moodle 1.6.4 • moodle moodle 1.6.5 • moodle moodle 1.6.6 • moodle moodle 1.6.7 • moodle moodle 1.6.8 • moodle moodle 1.7.1 • moodle moodle 1.7.2 • moodle moodle 1.7.3 • moodle moodle 1.7.4 • moodle moodle 1.7.5 • moodle moodle 1.7.6 • moodle moodle 1.8.1 • moodle moodle 1.8.2 • moodle moodle 1.8.3 • moodle moodle 1.8.4 • moodle moodle 1.8.5 • moodle moodle 1.8.6 • moodle moodle 1.8.7 • moodle moodle 1.8.8 • moodle moodle 1.9.1 • moodle moodle 1.9.2 • moodle moodle 1.9.3 • moodle moodle 1.9.4

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References