CVE-2022-44544

CRITICAL

9.8

Description

Mahara 21.04 before 21.04.7, 21.10 before 21.10.5, 22.04 before 22.04.3, and 22.10 before 22.10.0 potentially allow a PDF export to trigger a remote shell if the site is running on Ubuntu and the flag -dSAFER is not set with Ghostscript.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score9.8

SeverityCRITICAL

CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack VectorNETWORK

ComplexityLOW

Privileges RequiredNONE

User InteractionNONE

Published11/6/2022

Last Modified5/2/2025

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

canonical:ubuntu_linuxmahara:mahara

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-250

References

https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1979575(cve@mitre.org)

https://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=9198(cve@mitre.org)

https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1979575(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=9198(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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