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CVE-2022-44544

Published: Nov 6, 2022Updated: May 2, 2025 Sources: CVE List NVD BDUNVD-CWE-Other
NVD MITRE
9.8CVSSCRITICAL
EPSS Score
0.8%
Top 49.5%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available

Description

Mahara 21.04 before 21.04.7, 21.10 before 21.10.5, 22.04 before 22.04.3, and 22.10 before 22.10.0 potentially allow a PDF export to trigger a remote shell if the site is running on Ubuntu and the flag -dSAFER is not set with Ghostscript.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:LPR:NUI:NS:UC:HI:HA:H
Exploitability
AV:NAttack Vector
Network
AC:LAttack Complexity
Low
PR:NPrivileges Required
None
UI:NUser Interaction
None
Scope
S:UScope
Unchanged
Impact
C:HConfidentiality
High
I:HIntegrity
High
A:HAvailability
High
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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-OtherCWE-250

Affected Products

MaharaMahara Project
On-prem
Enterprise Software / collaboration-groupware
maharamahara
On-premWeb App
Enterprise Software / document-mgmt
n/an/a
mahara projectoss-projectEnterprise Software
maharaoss-projectEnterprise Softwareaka mahara mobile

Attack Graph

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Exploitability

Official Patch Available

MITRE ATT&CK

2 techniques
Privilege Escalation
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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-44544
nvd.nist.gov
https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/22.10/+bug/1979575
bugs.launchpad.net
https://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=9198
mahara.org
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Timeline

Published
Nov 6, 2022
Last Updated
May 2, 2025

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