# CVE-2024-52584: Autolab has vulnerable submission endpoints

- Severity: CVSS 4.9 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2024-11-18 · Updated: 2024-11-21

## Affected

- Autolab: 3.0.1

## Description

Autolab is a course management service that enables auto-graded programming assignments. There is a vulnerability in version 3.0.1 where CAs can view or edit the grade for any submission ID, even if they are not a CA for the class that has the submission. The endpoints only check that the CAs have the authorization level of a CA in the class in the endpoint, which is not necessarily the class the submission is attached to. Version 3.0.2 contains a patch. No known workarounds are available.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Autolab, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/autolab/Autolab/security/advisories/GHSA-rjg4-cf66-x6gr
- https://github.com/autolab/Autolab/commit/96006d532a392eeca2d350d1811f8e8ab9625bda

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