Bug 2188605 (CVE-2023-30943, MSA-23-0014)

Summary:	CVE-2023-30943 moodle: TinyMCE loaders susceptible to Arbitrary Folder Creation
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	TEJ RATHI <trathi>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	security-response-team
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	moodle 4.1.3	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
Doc Text:	The vulnerability was found Moodle which exists because the application allows a user to control path of the older to create in TinyMCE loaders. A remote user can send a specially crafted HTTP request and create arbitrary folders on the system.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2023-05-02 11:13:32 UTC	Type:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Depends On:	2192466, 2192467, 2192468, 2192469
Bug Blocks:	2188599

Description TEJ RATHI 2023-04-21 11:11:58 UTC

Insufficient sanitizing of loaders used by TinyMCE resulted in an arbitrary folder creation risk.

Versions affected: 4.1 to 4.1.2
Versions fixed: 4.1.3

Comment 2 TEJ RATHI 2023-05-02 06:35:35 UTC

Created moodle tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-7 [bug 2192466]
Affects: fedora-36 [bug 2192467]
Affects: fedora-37 [bug 2192468]
Affects: fedora-38 [bug 2192469]

Comment 3 TEJ RATHI 2023-05-02 06:36:11 UTC

References:

https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=446285
http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-77718

Comment 4 Product Security DevOps Team 2023-05-02 11:13:30 UTC

This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.