BIT-moodle-2023-5549

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    BIT-moodle-2023-5549

    Published: 6 Mar 2024Last Modified: 8 Sept 2026

    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.

    References: http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-66730, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2243451, https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=451590, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5549

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: moodle

    Purl: pkg:bitnami/moodle

    Affected ranges

    Type: SEMVER

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -3.9.24

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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