GHSA-x7r4-26m9-hmgqMedium

Moodle vulnerable to symlink attack

Published
May 17, 2022
Last Modified
February 19, 2024

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2008-5153 →

📋 Description

spell-check-logic.cgi in Moodle 1.9 before 1.9.4, 1.8 before 1.8.8, 1.7 before 1.7.7 and 1.6 before 1.6.9 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the (1) /tmp/spell-check-debug.log, (2) /tmp/spell-check-before, or (3) /tmp/spell-check-after temporary file.

🎯 Affected products4

  • composer/moodle/moodle:>= 1.9.0, < 1.9.4
  • composer/moodle/moodle:>= 1.8.0, < 1.8.8
  • composer/moodle/moodle:>= 1.7.0, < 1.7.7
  • composer/moodle/moodle:>= 1.6.0, < 1.6.9

🔗 References (8)