Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb
Published
2024-03-06 10:56
Modified
2025-05-20 10:02
Summary
Moodle: rce due to lfi risk in some misconfigured shared hosting environments
Details

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.

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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Bitnami",
        "name": "moodle",
        "purl": "pkg:bitnami/moodle"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "3.9.24"
            },
            {
              "introduced": "3.11.0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "3.11.17"
            },
            {
              "introduced": "4.0.0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "4.0.11"
            },
            {
              "introduced": "4.1.0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "4.1.6"
            },
            {
              "introduced": "4.2.0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "4.2.3"
            }
          ],
          "type": "SEMVER"
        }
      ],
      "severity": [
        {
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
          "type": "CVSS_V3"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2023-5550"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cpes": [
      "cpe:2.3:a:moodle:moodle:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
    ],
    "severity": "Critical"
  },
  "details": "In a shared hosting environment that has been misconfigured to allow access to other users\u0027 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.",
  "id": "BIT-moodle-2023-5550",
  "modified": "2025-05-20T10:02:07.006Z",
  "published": "2024-03-06T10:56:51.095Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git\u0026a=search\u0026h=HEAD\u0026st=commit\u0026s=MDL-72249"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2243452"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=451591"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5550"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.5.0",
  "summary": "Moodle: rce due to lfi risk in some misconfigured shared hosting environments"
}


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