CVE-2022-44544 (GCVE-0-2022-44544)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-11-06 00:00
Modified
2025-05-02 18:37
Severity ?
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
Mahara 21.04 before 21.04.7, 21.10 before 21.10.5, 22.04 before 22.04.3, and 22.10 before 22.10.0 potentially allow a PDF export to trigger a remote shell if the site is running on Ubuntu and the flag -dSAFER is not set with Ghostscript.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1979575Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=9198Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1979575Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=9198Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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