CVE-2025-50195
Published: 02 March 2026
Summary
CVE-2025-50195 is a high-severity OS Command Injection (CWE-78) vulnerability in Chamilo Chamilo Lms. Its CVSS base score is 7.1 (High).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked in the top 26.5% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 SI-10 (Information Input Validation) and SI-2 (Flaw Remediation).
Deeper analysis
CVE-2025-50195 is an OS Command Injection vulnerability (CWE-78) in Chamilo, an open-source learning management system. The flaw affects versions prior to 1.11.30 and resides in the file /plugin/vchamilo/views/manage.controller.php. It has a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.2 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H), indicating high severity due to its potential for significant impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
The vulnerability can be exploited over the network by an authenticated attacker with high privileges, requiring low complexity and no user interaction. Successful exploitation allows arbitrary OS command execution on the underlying host, potentially granting full control over the server running the Chamilo instance.
Mitigation is available via an upgrade to Chamilo version 1.11.30, where the issue has been patched. Relevant resources include the fixing commit at https://github.com/chamilo/chamilo-lms/commit/afdbd4bb9a9ea17b7740559dd4e05aa13b16480d, the release page at https://github.com/chamilo/chamilo-lms/releases/tag/v1.11.30, and the security advisory at https://github.com/chamilo/chamilo-lms/security/advisories/GHSA-c447-v9xq-mmj7.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-208164
Vulnerability details
Chamilo is a learning management system. Prior to version 1.11.30, there is an OS Command Injection vulnerability in /plugin/vchamilo/views/manage.controller.php. This issue has been patched in version 1.11.30.
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Why these techniques?
OS command injection in public-facing web app directly enables remote command execution via Unix shell.
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Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Directly requires validation and sanitization of untrusted input to the manage.controller.php endpoint, blocking the OS command injection (CWE-78) before execution.
Mandates timely application of the vendor patch (v1.11.30) that eliminates the command-injection flaw in the vchamilo plugin.
Enforces least privilege so that only the minimal set of accounts can reach the vulnerable management function, reducing the population able to supply malicious input.