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CVE-2025-3642 (GCVE-0-2025-3642)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-04-25 14:43 – Updated: 2025-04-28 16:37
VLAI
Title
Moodle: authenticated remote code execution risk in the moodle lms equella repository
Summary
A flaw was found in Moodle. A remote code execution risk was identified in the Moodle LMS EQUELLA repository. By default, this was only available to teachers and managers on sites with the EQUELLA repository enabled.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-04-25 15:38 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-94 - Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Affected: 4.5.0 , < 4.5.4 (semver)
Affected: 4.4.0 , < 4.4.8 (semver)
Affected: 4.3.0 , < 4.3.12 (semver)
Affected: 4.1.0 , < 4.1.18 (semver)
Date Public
2025-04-22 12:00
Credits
Red Hat would like to thank Vincent Schneider for reporting this issue.
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