CVE-2023-5550

MEDIUM severity · CVSS 6.5 · Code injection

6.5CVSS MEDIUM

Summary

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.

Impact & exploitability

Attack vectorNetwork

Attack complexityLow

Privileges requiredNone

User interactionNone

Confidentiality impactLow

Integrity impactLow

Availability impactNone

Exploit probability (EPSS)1%

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected products we track (1)

Moodle

Recommendation

Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.

Official patch: http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-72249 ↗

Additional information

NVD record
http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-72249Patch
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=451591Patch
http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-72249Patch
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=451591Patch
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2243452Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2243452Advisory