CVE-2024-47820: MarkUs vulnerable to Path Traversal

Severity: low (CVSS 3.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2024-11-18 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-22

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 products

MarkUsProject Markus: before 2.4.8 — fixed in 2.4.8

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: MarkUsProject Markus 2.4.8. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://github.com/MarkUsProject/Markus/pull/7026
https://github.com/MarkUsProject/Markus/security/advisories/GHSA-wq6v-vx8c-8fj8

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