CVE-2022-41956
A file disclosure vulnerability was discovered in Autolab's remote handin feature, whereby users are able to hand-in assignments using paths outside their submission directory.
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.77%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
Autolab is a course management service, initially developed by a team of students at Carnegie Mellon University, that enables instructors to offer autograded programming assignments to their students over the Web. A file disclosure vulnerability was discovered in Autolab's remote handin feature, whereby users are able to hand-in assignments using paths outside their submission directory. Users can then view the submission to view the file's contents. The vulnerability has been patched in version 2.10.0. As a workaround, ensure that the field for the remote handin feature is empty (Edit Assessment > Advanced > Remote handin path), and that you are not running Autolab as `root` (or any user that has write access to `/`). Alternatively, disable the remote handin feature if it is unneeded by replacing the body of `local_submit` in `app/controllers/assessment/handin.rb` with `render(plain: "Feature disabled", status: :bad_request) && return`.
- CVSS 3.1
- 6.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- EPSS
- 1.77% probability · 77th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-22
- Affected
- autolabproject/autolab
- Source
- security-advisories@github.com
References
- https://github.com/autolab/Autolab/security/advisories/GHSA-g7x7-mgrv-f24xThird Party Advisory
- https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2022-100_Autolab/
- https://www.stackhawk.com/blog/rails-path-traversal-guide-examples-and-prevention/Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/autolab/Autolab/security/advisories/GHSA-g7x7-mgrv-f24xThird Party Advisory
- https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2022-100_Autolab/
- https://www.stackhawk.com/blog/rails-path-traversal-guide-examples-and-prevention/Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.