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Autolab Has Misconfigured Reset Password Permissions

Type: advisorySources: OSV

Autolab, a course management service that enables auto-graded programming assignments, has misconfigured reset password permissions in version 3.0.0. For email-based accounts, users with insufficient privileges could reset and theoretically access privileged users' accounts by resetting their passwords. This issue is fixed in version 3.0.1. No known workarounds exist.

Products
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Affected versions
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Fixed versions
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CVEs
CVE-2024-49376
Confirmed fixed CVEs
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Updated in this feed
7 Nov 2026, 02:36 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

Autolab Has Misconfigured Reset Password Permissions

core-osv · Original source

Published 25 Oct 2024, 12:50 UTC

Autolab, a course management service that enables auto-graded programming assignments, has misconfigured reset password permissions in version 3.0.0. For email-based accounts, users with insufficient privileges could reset and theoretically access privileged users' accounts by resetting their passwords. This issue is fixed in version 3.0.1. No known workarounds exist.

osv:CVE-2024-49376
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-49376",
  "method": "structured",
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    "summary": "Autolab, a course management service that enables auto-graded programming assignments, has misconfigured reset password permissions in version 3.0.0. For email-based accounts, users with insufficient privileges could reset and theoretically access privileged users' accounts by resetting their passwords. This issue is fixed in version 3.0.1. No known workarounds exist.",
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