CVE-2024-47820

Published: Nov 18, 2024Modified: Jun 17, 2026

3.5

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Exploitability: 0.9 / Impact: 2.5

Source: NVD

Description

MarkUs, a web application for the submission and grading of student assignments, is vulnerable to path traversal in versions prior to 2.4.8. Authenticated instructors may download any file on the web server MarkUs is running on, depending on the file permissions. MarkUs v2.4.8 has addressed this issue. No known workarounds are available at the application level aside from upgrading.

Affected (1)

Products: Markusproject: Markus

1 product

Configuration A

1 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Markusproject Markus	Before 2.4.8

Related CWEs

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory.

References (2)

https://github.com/MarkUsProject/Markus/pull/7026

Source: security-advisories@github.com

Patch

https://github.com/MarkUsProject/Markus/security/advisories/GHSA-wq6v-vx8c-8fj8

Source: security-advisories@github.com

Third Party Advisory

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