Moodle up to 4.2.2 Category access control

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Moodle up to 3.9.23/3.11.16/4.0.10/4.1.5/4.2.2 and classified as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Category Handler. This manipulation causes access control. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2023-5549. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists. The affected component should be upgraded.

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A vulnerability was found in Moodle up to 3.9.23/3.11.16/4.0.10/4.1.5/4.2.2 (Learning Management Software). It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown part of the component Category Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-284. The product does not restrict or incorrectly restricts access to a resource from an unauthorized actor. As an impact it is known to affect integrity.

The weakness was disclosed 10/19/2023. The advisory is shared at bugzilla.redhat.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2023-5549 since 10/12/2023. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1068 for this issue.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 261510 (Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2023-5549), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 3.9.24, 3.11.17, 4.0.11, 4.1.6 or 4.2.3 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (261510). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Type

• Learning Management Software

Name

• Moodle

Version

• 3.9.0
• 3.9.1
• 3.9.2
• 3.9.3
• 3.9.4
• 3.9.5
• 3.9.6
• 3.9.7
• 3.9.8
• 3.9.9
• 3.9.10
• 3.9.11
• 3.9.12
• 3.9.13
• 3.9.14
• 3.9.15
• 3.9.16
• 3.9.17
• 3.9.18
• 3.9.19
• 3.9.20
• 3.9.21
• 3.9.22
• 3.9.23
• 3.11.0
• 3.11.1
• 3.11.2
• 3.11.3
• 3.11.4
• 3.11.5
• 3.11.6
• 3.11.7
• 3.11.8
• 3.11.9
• 3.11.10
• 3.11.11
• 3.11.12
• 3.11.13
• 3.11.14
• 3.11.15
• 3.11.16
• 4.0.0
• 4.0.1
• 4.0.2
• 4.0.3
• 4.0.4
• 4.0.5
• 4.0.6
• 4.0.7
• 4.0.8
• 4.0.9
• 4.0.10
• 4.1.0
• 4.1.1
• 4.1.2
• 4.1.3
• 4.1.4
• 4.1.5
• 4.2.0
• 4.2.1
• 4.2.2

License

• open-source

Website

• Product: https://moodle.org/

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