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CVE-2023-5549 (GCVE-0-2023-5549)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-11-09 19:37 – Updated: 2024-08-02 07:59

Title

Moodle: insufficient capability checks when updating the parent of a course category

Summary

Insufficient web service capability checks made it possible to move categories a user had permission to manage, to a parent category they did not have the capability to manage.

Severity

3.3 (Low)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-04-19 18:16 UTC

CWE

CWE-284 - Improper Access Control

Assigner

fedora redhat root Scorecard

References

3 references

URL	Tags
http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=…
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2243451	issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHAT
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=451590

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version	CPE status
		Affected: 4.2.0 , < 4.2.3 (semver) Affected: 4.1.0 , < 4.1.6 (semver) Affected: 4.0.0 , < 4.0.11 (semver) Affected: 3.11.0 , < 3.11.17 (semver) Affected: 0 , < 3.9.24 (semver)

Date Public

2023-10-16 00:00

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CERTFR-2023-AVI-0859

Vulnerability from certfr_avis - Published: - Updated:

De multiples vulnérabilités ont été découvertes dans Moodle. Certaines d'entre elles permettent à un attaquant de provoquer une exécution de code arbitraire à distance, un contournement de la politique de sécurité et une atteinte à l'intégrité des données.

Solution

Se référer au bulletin de sécurité de l'éditeur pour l'obtention des correctifs (cf. section Documentation).

None

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Description
Moodle	Moodle	Moodle versions 4.2.x antérieures à 4.2.3
Moodle	Moodle	Moodle versions 4.0.x antérieures à 4.0.11
Moodle	Moodle	Moodle versions antérieures à 3.9.24
Moodle	Moodle	Moodle versions 3.11.x antérieures à 3.11.17
Moodle	Moodle	Moodle versions 4.1.x antérieures à 4.1.6

References

Title

Publication Time

CERTFR-2023-AVI-0859

Vulnerability from certfr_avis - Published: - Updated:

Solution

Se référer au bulletin de sécurité de l'éditeur pour l'obtention des correctifs (cf. section Documentation).

None

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Description
Moodle	Moodle	Moodle versions 4.2.x antérieures à 4.2.3
Moodle	Moodle	Moodle versions 4.0.x antérieures à 4.0.11
Moodle	Moodle	Moodle versions antérieures à 3.9.24
Moodle	Moodle	Moodle versions 3.11.x antérieures à 3.11.17
Moodle	Moodle	Moodle versions 4.1.x antérieures à 4.1.6

References

Title

Publication Time

bit-moodle-2023-5549

Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

Published

2024-03-06 10:57

Modified

2026-09-08 08:34

Summary

Moodle: insufficient capability checks when updating the parent of a course category

Details

Insufficient web service capability checks made it possible to move categories a user had permission to manage, to a parent category they did not have the capability to manage.

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FKIE_CVE-2023-5549

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2023-11-09 20:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 06:48

Severity

3.3 (Low) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
5.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Summary

Insufficient web service capability checks made it possible to move categories a user had permission to manage, to a parent category they did not have the capability to manage.

References

URL	Tags
patrick@puiterwijk.org	http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-66730	Patch
patrick@puiterwijk.org	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2243451	Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
patrick@puiterwijk.org	https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=451590	Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-66730	Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2243451	Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=451590	Patch, Vendor Advisory

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
moodle	moodle	*
moodle	moodle	*
moodle	moodle	*
moodle	moodle	*
moodle	moodle	*
fedoraproject	extra_packages_for_enterprise_linux	7.0
fedoraproject	fedora	38

JSON

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GHSA-FM5H-58G2-4M3F

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2023-11-09 21:30 – Updated: 2023-11-17 22:00

Summary

Moodle Improper Access Control vulnerability

Details

Insufficient web service capability checks made it possible to move categories a user had permission to manage, to a parent category they did not have the capability to manage.

Severity

5.3 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Show details on source website

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      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Packagist",
        "name": "moodle/moodle"
      },
      "ranges": [
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GSD-2023-5549

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2023-12-13 01:20

Details

Insufficient web service capability checks made it possible to move categories a user had permission to manage, to a parent category they did not have the capability to manage.

Aliases

CVE-2023-5549

Aliases

CVE-2023-5549

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UBUNTU-CVE-2023-5549 (CVE-2023-5549)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2023-11-09 20:15 – Updated: 2026-09-23 15:45 – Source website

Details

Insufficient web service capability checks made it possible to move categories a user had permission to manage, to a parent category they did not have the capability to manage.

Severity

3.3 (Low)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

5.3 (Medium)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-5549	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-5549	REPORT

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WID-SEC-W-2023-2701

Vulnerability from csaf_certbund - Published: 2023-10-17 22:00 - Updated: 2023-10-17 22:00

Summary

Moodle: Mehrere Schwachstellen

Severity

Hoch

Scope

10 vulnerabilities in this advisory, including CVE-2023-5549.

CVE-2023-5549

In Moodle existieren mehrere Schwachstellen. Ein Angreifer kann diese Schwachstellen ausnutzen, um Informationen offenzulegen, Sicherheitsvorkehrungen zu umgehen oder einen Cross-Site-Scripting-Angriff durchzuführen. Zur erfolgreichen Ausnutzung einiger dieser Schwachstellen ist eine Benutzeraktion erforderlich.

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date	Other

Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base model, served locally by ML-Gateway. They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
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Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.

Action not permitted

CVE-2023-5549 (GCVE-0-2023-5549)

CERTFR-2023-AVI-0859

Solution

CERTFR-2023-AVI-0859

Solution

bit-moodle-2023-5549

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FKIE_CVE-2023-5549

GHSA-FM5H-58G2-4M3F

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