CVE-2024-52584: Autolab has vulnerable submission endpoints

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% 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-863

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.

Affected products

Autolab: 3.0.1

References

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

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