- Critical 9.4
CVE-2026-94620
Classroom 50 is a free and open-source tool for managing and grading programming assignments via GitHub. Prior to version 1.11.0, `gh teacher download` clones each student's assignment repository and then writes autograde artifacts (`result.json` and `results.json`) into the just-cloned working tree. The write followed symlinks, so a student who committed `result.json` or `results.json` as a **symlink** (materialized verbatim by `git clone`) could redirect the teacher's write to an arbitrary path, e.g. `~/.zshrc`, `~/.ssh/authorized_keys`, a cron file, or an in-clone `.git/hooks/*` file that…
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The facts
- Published
- 1 October 2026
- Last changed
- 2 October 2026
- NVD status
- Deferred
- Severity
- Critical, CVSS 9.4 out of 10 (version 4.0)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R… - Weakness
- Known exploited
- Not in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue in this build.
- EPSS
- 0.4% chance of exploitation activity in the next 30 days (percentile 34).
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