CVE-2023-5550
Moodle: rce due to lfi risk in some misconfigured shared hosting environments
6.5
MEDIUM
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 1.5%
Description
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.
How to fix CVE-2023-5550
To remediate CVE-2023-5550, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 3.9.24 or later
- —upgrade to 4.3.0-rc2 or later
Is CVE-2023-5550 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 1.5%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 3.9.24, >= 3.11.0, < 3.11.17, >= 4.0.0, < 4.0.11, >= 4.1.0, < 4.1.6, >= 4.2.0, < 4.2.3
- >= 4.3.0-beta, < 4.3.0-rc2
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N |