CVE-2024-43440 (GCVE-0-2024-43440)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-11-07 13:32 – Updated: 2024-11-07 14:38
VLAI
Title
Moodle: lfi vulnerability when restoring malformed block backups
Summary
A flaw was found in moodle. A local file may include risks when restoring block backups.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-22 - Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Affected: 0 , < 4.1.12 (semver)
Affected: 4.2 , < 4.2.9 (semver)
Affected: 4.3 , < 4.3.6 (semver)
Affected: 4.4 , < 4.4.2 (semver)
Date Public
2024-08-19 04:00
Credits
Red Hat would like to thank Paul Holden for reporting this issue.
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