01 Record
CVE-2023-5550
Moodle: rce due to lfi risk in some misconfigured shared hosting environments
MediumPUBLISHEDCNA: fedora
CNA base score6.5 CVSS v3.xCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
02 Description
Moodle: rce due to lfi risk in some misconfigured shared hosting environments
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Assessed, none found. CISA's assessment recorded neither public exploit code nor evidence of exploitation when it was made.
- SSVC decision
- ExploitationnoneCISA recorded no public exploit code and no evidence of exploitation.
- AutomatableyesAn attacker can reliably automate reconnaissance through exploitation, so this scales.
- Technical ImpactpartialSuccessful exploitation gives limited control of the vulnerable component.
- EPSS probability
- 1.61% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 75.7% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 9.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2023-11-09 19:38Z2 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-02 07:59Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2023-10-12
- Assigning CNA
- fedora
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Medium (CVSS 6.5)
- CNA CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-94Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')Base
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 46fa7ce7b07a9c4be161a6b0bb9583ab2337970f42ab9a67db8de77760f5315d
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
moodlemoodle4.2.0 to < 4.2.3, 4.1.0 to < 4.1.6, 4.0.0 to < 4.0.11, 3.11.0 to < 3.11.17, 0 to < 3.9.24—
06 References
- git.moodle.orghttp://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-72249
- bugzilla.redhat.comRHBZ#2243452https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2243452
- moodle.orghttps://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=451591
07 Fixed in
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS
- moodle No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS
- moodle No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.