CVE-2023-5549 (GCVE-0-2023-5549)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-11-09 19:37 – Updated: 2024-08-02 07:59
VLAI?
Title
Moodle: insufficient capability checks when updating the parent of a course category
Summary
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.
Severity ?
3.3 (Low)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-284 - Improper Access Control
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Affected: 4.2.0 , < 4.2.3 (semver)
Affected: 4.1.0 , < 4.1.6 (semver)
Affected: 4.0.0 , < 4.0.11 (semver)
Affected: 3.11.0 , < 3.11.17 (semver)
Affected: 0 , < 3.9.24 (semver)
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