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

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-04-25 14:43 – Updated: 2025-04-28 16:37
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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
CWE
  • CWE-94 - Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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)
Credits
Red Hat would like to thank Vincent Schneider for reporting this issue.
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