CVE-2023-5549

Moodle: insufficient capability checks when updating the parent of a course category

Severity Score

5.3

*CVSS v3.1

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

Track

*SSVC

Descriptions

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.

Las comprobaciones insuficientes de la capacidad del servicio web hicieron posible mover categorías que un usuario tenía permiso para administrar a una categoría principal que no tenía la capacidad de administrar.

*Credits: N/A

CVSS Scores

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

Low

Availability

None

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

Required

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

Low

Availability

None

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

Partial

Availability

None

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:Track

Exploitation

None

Automatable

Tech. Impact

Partial

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2023-10-12 CVE Reserved
2023-11-09 CVE Published
2024-08-02 CVE Updated
2025-04-15 EPSS Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date
---------- First Exploit

CWE

CWE-269: Improper Privilege Management
CWE-284: Improper Access Control

CAPEC

References (3)

URL	Tag	Source

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC
http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-66730	2023-11-16
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2243451	2023-11-16
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=451590	2023-11-16

URL	Date	SRC

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Moodle Search vendor "Moodle"		Moodle Search vendor "Moodle" for product "Moodle"				< 3.9.24 Search vendor "Moodle" for product "Moodle" and version " < 3.9.24"		-		Affected
Moodle Search vendor "Moodle"		Moodle Search vendor "Moodle" for product "Moodle"				>= 3.11.0 < 3.11.17 Search vendor "Moodle" for product "Moodle" and version " >= 3.11.0 < 3.11.17"		-		Affected
Moodle Search vendor "Moodle"		Moodle Search vendor "Moodle" for product "Moodle"				>= 4.0.0 < 4.0.11 Search vendor "Moodle" for product "Moodle" and version " >= 4.0.0 < 4.0.11"		-		Affected
Moodle Search vendor "Moodle"		Moodle Search vendor "Moodle" for product "Moodle"				>= 4.1.0 < 4.1.6 Search vendor "Moodle" for product "Moodle" and version " >= 4.1.0 < 4.1.6"		-		Affected
Moodle Search vendor "Moodle"		Moodle Search vendor "Moodle" for product "Moodle"				>= 4.2.0 < 4.2.3 Search vendor "Moodle" for product "Moodle" and version " >= 4.2.0 < 4.2.3"		-		Affected
Fedoraproject Search vendor "Fedoraproject"		Extra Packages For Enterprise Linux Search vendor "Fedoraproject" for product "Extra Packages For Enterprise Linux"				7.0 Search vendor "Fedoraproject" for product "Extra Packages For Enterprise Linux" and version "7.0"		-		Affected
Fedoraproject Search vendor "Fedoraproject"		Fedora Search vendor "Fedoraproject" for product "Fedora"				38 Search vendor "Fedoraproject" for product "Fedora" and version "38"		-		Affected