CVE-2022-35649
The vulnerability was found in Moodle, occurs due to improper input validation when parsing PostScript code. An omitted execution…
- 9.8CriticalCVSS base score
- 8.6%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 4.9% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
The vulnerability was found in Moodle, occurs due to improper input validation when parsing PostScript code. An omitted execution parameter results in a remote code execution risk for sites running GhostScript versions older than 9.50. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.
Timeline
ID reserved
By fedora
- 13 days later
· 13 days later
Published
- 2 years later
· 2 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 8.6% · top 4.9% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Affected products
Moodle
- affected Fixed in moodle 4.0.2, moodle 3.11.8, moodle 3.9.15
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Packagistmoodle/moodleGHSA-xp2f-9mx3-3c6p (opens in a new tab)
References
References5
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2106273 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=436456 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-75044 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- FEDORA-2022-81ce74b2dd (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2022-7e7ce7df2e (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2022-6451 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-xp2f-9mx3-3c6p (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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