GHSA-fm5h-58g2-4m3f

Moodle Improper Access Control vulnerability

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2023-5549

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
Packagist	moodle/moodle	< 4.3.0-rc2	4.3.0-rc2

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

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

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5549 advisory
https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/5a765e124c950b1e4313c9bf96ea2dd194f65c75 web
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2243451 web
https://github.com/moodle/moodle package
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=451590 web
http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-66730 web