Bug 2243451 (CVE-2023-5549, MSA-23-0041)

Summary:	CVE-2023-5549 moodle: Insufficient capability checks when updating the parent of a course category
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Robb Gatica <rgatica>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Product Security <prodsec-ir-bot>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
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Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	ntait, security-response-team
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	moodle 4.2.3, moodle 4.1.6, moodle 4.0.11, moodle 3.11.17, moodle 3.9.24	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
Doc Text:	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.	Story Points:	---
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Bug Depends On:	2244919, 2244920
Bug Blocks:	2243346

Description Robb Gatica 2023-10-12 00:46:38 UTC

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. This flaw affects versions 4.2 to 4.2.2, 4.1 to 4.1.5, 4.0 to 4.0.10, 3.11 to 3.11.16,
3.9 to 3.9.23 and earlier unsupported versions.

Comment 2 Nick Tait 2023-10-18 18:52:54 UTC

https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=451590

Comment 3 Nick Tait 2023-10-18 20:47:14 UTC

Created moodle tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-7 [bug 2244919]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 2244920]