CVE-2014-3542

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-07-29 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

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.

Affected products

Moodle: through 2.3.11; 2.7.0, 2.6.0, 2.6.1, 2.6.2, 2.6.3, 2.3.0 (+28)

References

http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-45463
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/07/21/1
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=264263
http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-45463
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/07/21/1
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=264263

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