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CVE-2023-5550

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

Published: Nov 9, 2023Updated: Nov 21, 2024 Sources: CVE List NVD GHSA BDUCWE-94
NVD MITRE
6.5CVSSMEDIUM
EPSS Score
1.4%
Top 31.7%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available

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.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:LPR:NUI:NS:UC:LI:LA:N
Exploitability
AV:NAttack Vector
Network
AC:LAttack Complexity
Low
PR:NPrivileges Required
None
UI:NUser Interaction
None
Scope
S:UScope
Unchanged
Impact
C:LConfidentiality
Low
I:LIntegrity
Low
A:NAvailability
None
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Weaknesses

CWE-94NVD-CWE-Other

Affected Products

moodlemoodle
On-premWeb App
Web & CMS Plugins / cms-core
extra packages for enterprise linuxfedoraproject
On-premOS
Operating Systems / linux-distro
fedorafedoraproject
On-premOS
Operating Systems / linux-distro
moodle/moodlePackagist
Web App
Web & CMS Plugins / cms-core
moodleoss-projectAUWeb & CMS Pluginsaka jmol plugin, lms
fedoraprojectoss-projectUSOperating Systemsaka fedora project
packagistpackage-ecosystemOSS Libraries
and 2 more affected products View all →

Attack Graph

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Exploitability

Official Patch Available

MITRE ATT&CK

2 techniques
Execution
Initial Access
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References

http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-72249
git.moodle.org
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2243452
bugzilla.redhat.com
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=451591
moodle.org
and 5 more references View all →

Timeline

Published
Nov 9, 2023
Last Updated
Nov 21, 2024

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