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CVE-2026-32892

chamilo chamilo-lms — OS Command Injection in Chamilo LMS 1.11.36

Description · from the CVE record

Chamilo LMS is a learning management system. Prior to 1.11.38 and 2.0.0-RC.3, Chamilo LMS contains an OS Command Injection vulnerability in the file move function. The move() function in fileManage.lib.php passes user-controlled path values directly into exec() shell commands without using escapeshellarg(). When a user moves a document via document.php, the move_to POST parameter — which only passes through Security::remove_XSS() (an HTML-only filter) — is concatenated directly into shell commands such as exec("mv $source $target"). By default, Chamilo allows all authenticated users to create courses (allow_users_to_create_courses = true). Any user who is a teacher in a course (including self-created courses) can move documents, making this vulnerability exploitable by any authenticated user. The attacker must first place a directory with shell metacharacters in its name on the filesystem (achievable via Course Backup Import), then move a document into that directory to trigger arbitrary command execution as the web server user (www-data). This vulnerability is fixed in 1.11.38 and 2.0.0-RC.3.

Affected

ProductAffectedFixed inSource
chamilo-lms< 1.11.38–CNA
chamilo-lms>= 2.0.0-alpha.1, < 2.0.0-RC.3–CNA

Scores by source

GitHub_M (CNA)9.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CISA ADPSSVCExploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total

References

refgithub.com/chamilo/chamilo-lms/security/advisories/GHSA-59cv-qh65-vvrrrefgithub.com/chamilo/chamilo-lms/commit/3597b19b73d73d681e4fb503285e9bbfe71714bfrefgithub.com/chamilo/chamilo-lms/commit/62671e5e268f235cddfba704edee90f35c234df1