CVE-2021-40694

Publication date 29 September 2022

Last updated 26 August 2025


Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

4.9 · Medium

Score breakdown

Description

Insufficient escaping of the LaTeX preamble made it possible for site administrators to read files available to the HTTP server system account.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
moodle 18.04 LTS bionic
Needs evaluation
16.04 LTS xenial Ignored end of standard support
14.04 LTS trusty Ignored end of standard support

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 4.9 · Medium

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


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