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Moodle: Unspecified Security Vulnerability (CVE-2023-5550)

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Moodle: Unspecified Security Vulnerability (CVE-2023-5550)

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

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.

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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