CVE-2022-39367

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions QTIWorks versions prior to 1.0-beta15

Description QTIWorks is a software suite for standards-based assessment delivery. The ZIP handling code does not sufficiently check the paths of files contained within ZIP files, allowing files to be inserted into other locations in the filesystem if they are writable by the process running the QTIWorks Engine. This could potentially allow anonymous users to change files in arbitrary locations in the filesystem. However, in normal QTIWorks Engine deployments, the impact is somewhat reduced because the default QTIWorks configuration does not enable the public demo functionality, so ZIP files can only be uploaded by users with "instructor" privileges.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.0-beta15, upgrade to version 1.0-beta15 to fix the issue. No database configuration changes are required when upgrading to this version. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting the upload of ZIP files to trusted users or disabling the ZIP upload functionality until the upgrade is applied.