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Moodle: Improper Privilege Management (CVE-2023-5549)

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Moodle: Improper Privilege Management (CVE-2023-5549)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/09/2023
Created
11/21/2023
Added
11/20/2023
Modified
11/20/2023

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.

Solution(s)

  • moodle-upgrade-3_11_17
  • moodle-upgrade-3_9_24
  • moodle-upgrade-4_0_11
  • moodle-upgrade-4_1_6
  • moodle-upgrade-4_2_3

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