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medium 4.3

CVE-2014-3543 json

Moodle Arbitrary File Read via XML External Entity vulnerability

published 2014-07-29 12 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-27j2-c838-c3qg , EUVD-2022-1932

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/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.

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-2014-3543 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
>=2.7.0, <2.7.1
>=2.6.0, <2.6.4
>=2.5.0, <2.5.7
<2.4.11
2.7.1
2.6.4
2.5.7
2.4.11

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
  • CWE-611 Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference

References

Sources

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