CVE-2023-5549

Moodle: insufficient capability checks when updating the parent of a course category

State: Published
Severity: 3.3 Low
Published: Nov 9, 2023
Updated: Aug 2, 2024
Reserved: Oct 12, 2023

Description

Insufficient web service capability checks made it possible to move categories a user had permission to manage, to a parent category they did not have the capability to manage.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	3.3 Low	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N	fedora

Weaknesses

CWE-284 Improper Access Control

Affected Products

Product	Versions
moodle	4.2.0 to before 4.2.3Affected 4.1.0 to before 4.1.6Affected 4.0.0 to before 4.0.11Affected 3.11.0 to before 3.11.17Affected before 3.9.24Affected

References

http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-66730
RHBZ#2243451issue-tracking
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=451590

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