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Moodle Arbitrary File Read via XML External Entity vulnerability

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 13, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 24, 2024

Package

composer moodle/moodle (Composer)

Affected versions

= 2.7.0
>= 2.6.0, <= 2.6.3
>= 2.5.0, <= 2.5.6
<= 2.4.10

Patched versions

2.7.1
2.6.4
2.5.7
2.4.11

Description

mod/imscp/locallib.php in Moodle through 2.3.11, 2.4.x before 2.4.11, 2.5.x before 2.5.7, 2.6.x before 2.6.4, and 2.7.x before 2.7.1 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a package with a manifest file containing an XML external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue affecting IMSCP resources and the IMSCC format.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jul 29, 2014
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 13, 2022
Reviewed Aug 15, 2023
Last updated Jan 24, 2024

Severity

Moderate

EPSS score

0.313%
(70th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2014-3543

GHSA ID

GHSA-27j2-c838-c3qg

Source code

Credits

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