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medium 4.3

CVE-2014-3542 json

Moodle allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files

published 2014-07-29 12 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-xmwv-mqh8-4xgw , EUVD-2022-5831

cvss
4.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.4%
EPSS 1.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 71%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

mod/lti/service.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 an XML external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue.

Patch / fix

  • packagist moodle/moodle 2.4.11, 2.5.7, 2.6.4, 2.7.1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2014-3542 updated cvss 6.8

moodle: security issues fixed in the upstream 2.7.1, 2.6.4, 2.5.7, and 2.4.11 releases

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.35% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 71% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
packagist moodle/moodle
<=2.3.11
>=2.4.0, <2.4.11
>=2.5.0, <2.5.7
>=2.6.0, <2.6.4
>=2.7.0, <2.7.1
2.4.11
2.5.7
2.6.4
2.7.1

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

References

Sources

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