CVE-2024-43440 Moodle: lfi vulnerability when restoring malformed block backups

What is CVE-2024-43440?

CVE-2024-43440 is a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in Moodle Moodle, published on 7 Nov 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A flaw was found in moodle. A local file may include risks when restoring block backups.

Weakness: CWE-22

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-43440?

9 open source packages ship an affected version, including moodle/moodle and moodle. It affects 1 product.

Products include Moodle Moodle.

How do I fix CVE-2024-43440?

Upgrade moodle/moodle to a fixed version for your release line: 4.1.12, 4.2.9, 4.3.6 or 4.4.2.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2024-43440 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-43440 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Moodle Moodle

• CVE-2006-4935 File upload in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2006-4936 Moodle does not properly validate module instance id Critical 10.0
• CVE-2004-2233 Unknown "front page vulnerability with Moodle servers" for Moodle before 1.3.2 has unknown impact and attack vectors. Critical 10.0
• CVE-2004-2235 Cross-site scripting in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2004-2236 Other in n/a Critical 10.0

All Moodle Moodle vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as BIT-moodle-2024-43440, GHSA-qrqv-26gf-xgwh, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-43440.