CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2023-5549

Improper Privilege Management

Published: Nov 09, 2023 | Modified: Nov 16, 2023
CVSS 3.x
5.3
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

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.

Weakness

The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Moodle Moodle * 3.9.24 (excluding)
Moodle Moodle 3.11.0 (including) 3.11.17 (excluding)
Moodle Moodle 4.0.0 (including) 4.0.11 (excluding)
Moodle Moodle 4.1.0 (including) 4.1.6 (excluding)
Moodle Moodle 4.2.0 (including) 4.2.3 (excluding)
Moodle Ubuntu bionic *
Moodle Ubuntu trusty *
Moodle Ubuntu xenial *

Potential Mitigations

References