# CVE-2024-53258: download_all_submissions allows student to download another student's submissions in Autolab

> Students can download other students' submissions by exploiting missing authorization checks in the download_all_submissions feature.

- **Severity:** High 7.1 (`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`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 25 Nov 2024
- **Updated:** 25 Nov 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-84qc-7773-2gg3

## What is CVE-2024-53258?

CVE-2024-53258 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Autolab, published on 25 Nov 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Autolab is a course management service that enables auto-graded programming assignments. From Autolab versions v.3.0.0 onward students can download all assignments from another student, as long as they are logged in, using the download_all_submissions feature. This can allow for leakage of submissions to unauthorized users, such as downloading submissions from other students in the class, or even instructor test submissions, given they know their user IDs. This issue has been patched in commit `1aa4c769` which is not yet in a release version, but is expected to be included in version 3.0.3. Users are advised to either manually patch or to wait for version 3.0.3. As a workaround administrators can disable the feature.

Weakness: CWE-862 (Missing Authorization), CWE-359 (Exposure of Private Personal Information to an Unauthorized Actor)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-53258?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Autolabproject Autolab.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-53258?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-53258 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-53258 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-53258 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Autolab

- [CVE-2022-41955](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-41955/): Autolab is vulnerable to remote code execution (RCE) via MOSS functionality (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2022-0936](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-0936/): Cross-site Scripting (XSS) - Stored in autolab/autolab (high 7.6)
- [CVE-2024-49376](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-49376/): Autolab Has Misconfigured Reset Password Permissions (high 7.1)
- [CVE-2024-53260](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-53260/): Course Roster vulnerable to CSV Injection in Autolab (medium 6.8)
- [CVE-2023-32317](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-32317/): Autolab tar slip in cheat checker functionality (`GHSL-2023-082`) (medium 6.7)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-53258 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-53258 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Autolab, published on 25 Nov 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-53258 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Autolab. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-53258/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-53258/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-53258
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-53258
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-53258

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Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.