CVE-2024-47820: Markusproject Markus

Low severity, CVSS 3.5. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

MarkUs, a web application for the submission and grading of student assignments, is vulnerable to path traversal in versions prior to 2.4.8. Authenticated instructors may download any file on the web server MarkUs is running on, depending on the file permissions. MarkUs v2.4.8 has addressed this issue. No known workarounds are available at the application level aside from upgrading.

Affected products

• Markusproject Markus: before 2.4.8 (fixed in 2.4.8)

Published 2024-11-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.