medium5.3
CVE-2023-5549
Moodle Improper Access Control vulnerability
Impact
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.
Affected packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| composer | moodle/moodle | < 4.3.0-rc2 | 4.3.0-rc2 |
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Moodle | Moodle | before 3.9.24 from 3.11.0 before 3.11.17 from 4.0.0 before 4.0.11 from 4.1.0 before 4.1.6 from 4.2.0 before 4.2.3 |
| Fedoraproject | Extra Packages For Enterprise Linux | Version 7.0 |
| Fedoraproject | Fedora | Version 38 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- GitHub advisory
- http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-66730
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2243451
- https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=451590
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-fm5h-58g2-4m3f
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5549
- https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/5a765e124c950b1e4313c9bf96ea2dd194f65c75