CVE-2022-44544 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable yes

Technical Impact total

Vendors	Products
Canonical	Ubuntu Linux
Mahara	Mahara

Configuration 1 [-]

AND

OR	cpe:2.3:a:mahara:mahara::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:mahara:mahara::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:mahara:mahara::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:mahara:mahara:22.10.0:rc1::::::

cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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References

Link	Providers
https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1979575
https://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=9198

History

Fri, 02 May 2025 19:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Weaknesses		CWE-250
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2022-11-06T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-05-02T18:37:16.148Z

Reserved: 2022-11-01T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-44544

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T13:54:03.669Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-11-06T17:15:10.220

Modified: 2025-05-02T19:15:54.950

Link: CVE-2022-44544

Redhat

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