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Course Roster vulnerable to CSV Injection in Autolab

Type: advisorySources: OSV

Autolab is a course management service that enables auto-graded programming assignments. A user can modify their first and or last name to include a valid excel / spreadsheet formula. When an instructor downloads their course's roster and opens, this name will then be evaluated as a formula. This could lead to leakage of information of students in the course roster by sending the data to a remote endpoint. This issue has been patched in the source code repository and the fix is expected to be released in the next version. Users are advised to manually patch their systems or to wait for the next release. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

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CVEs
CVE-2024-53260
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2 Nov 2026, 18:32 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

Course Roster vulnerable to CSV Injection in Autolab

core-osv · Original source

Published 27 Nov 2024, 21:28 UTC

Autolab is a course management service that enables auto-graded programming assignments. A user can modify their first and or last name to include a valid excel / spreadsheet formula. When an instructor downloads their course's roster and opens, this name will then be evaluated as a formula. This could lead to leakage of information of students in the course roster by sending the data to a remote endpoint. This issue has been patched in the source code repository and the fix is expected to be released in the next version. Users are advised to manually patch their systems or to wait for the next release. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

osv:CVE-2024-53260
Complete source record
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