🛡️ CVE-2024-47820 — markus

🟡 CVSS 5.7 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-22 NVD
5.7
CVSS Score
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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.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached from an adjacent network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs administrative privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity low, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2024-47820 is classified as CWE-22: Path Traversal. A file path built from user input is not confined to the intended directory, letting an attacker reach files elsewhere on the filesystem.

Affected software

CVE-2024-47820 is recorded against 1 package.

  • markus (fixed in 2.4.8)

Timeline and source

Published on 18 November 2024 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

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Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.7
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H
CWE CWE-22
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-11-18
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
markus — 2.4.8

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