Riskcovery

CVE-2023-5550

Moodle: rce due to lfi risk in some misconfigured shared hosting environments

State
Published
Severity
6.5 Medium
Published
Nov 9, 2023
Updated
Aug 2, 2024
Reserved
Oct 12, 2023

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Description

In a shared hosting environment that has been misconfigured to allow access to other users' content, a Moodle user who also has direct access to the web server outside of the Moodle webroot could utilise a local file include to achieve remote code execution.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.16.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:Nfedora

Weaknesses

  • CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

Affected Products

ProductVersions
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

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