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Vulnerability details: VCID-ea5s-xphb-6ub7
Vulnerability ID VCID-ea5s-xphb-6ub7
Aliases CVE-2014-3542
GHSA-xmwv-mqh8-4xgw
Summary Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor 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.
Status Published
Exploitability None
Weighted Severity None
Risk None
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (3)
CWE-1035 OWASP Top Ten 2017 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
CWE-937 OWASP Top Ten 2013 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
System Score Found at
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Reference id Reference type URL
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://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/78ed99ec7e5e75b283e844adb058140d6ba0ff14
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=264263
CVE-2014-3542 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-3542
GHSA-xmwv-mqh8-4xgw https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xmwv-mqh8-4xgw
No exploits are available.
There are no known vectors.

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Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-06-02T04:42:40.191534+00:00 GitLab Importer Import https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/packagist/moodle/moodle/CVE-2014-3542.yml 38.6.0