Information disclosure in Moodle - CVE-2014-3543

 

Information disclosure in Moodle - CVE-2014-3543

Published: July 29, 2014 / Updated: August 10, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU41453
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-3543
CWE-ID: CWE-200
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to gain access to sensitive information.

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.


Affected software

Moodle
Fedora
moodle

How to mitigate CVE-2014-3543

Install update from vendor's website.

moodle - update to 2.4.11-1.el6

External References

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