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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

Published Nov 6, 2022

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.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-250

Execution with Unnecessary Privileges

References (2)

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Nov 6, 2022
Updated May 2, 2025
Reserved Nov 1, 2022
Link CVE-2022-44544
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated May 2, 2025
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Link CVE-2022-44544
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a
Links CVE-2022-44544