CVE-2023-5550

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    CVE-2023-5550

    Published: 9 Nov 2023Last Modified: 12 Aug 2026

    Summary: Moodle: rce due to lfi risk in some misconfigured shared hosting environments

    Details: 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.

    References: http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-72249, https://git.moodle.org, https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=451591, https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/5xxx/CVE-2023-5550.json, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5550, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2243452

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name:

    Purl:

    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -71b514944365362ceaac1018bf7970c2b080c0f2

    Affected versions

    v4.1.5
    v4.1.4
    v4.1.3
    v4.1.2
    v4.1.1
    v4.1.0

    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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