CVE-2012-4401: Medium severity Moodle moodle vulnerability

Published Sep 19, 2012
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Updated

Moodle 2.2.x before 2.2.5 and 2.3.x before 2.3.2 allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended capability restrictions and perform certain topic changes by leveraging course-editing capabilities.

Affected Software

7 affected components
Moodle moodle=2.2.0
Moodle moodle=2.2.1
Moodle moodle=2.2.2
Moodle moodle=2.2.3
Moodle moodle=2.2.4
Moodle moodle=2.3.0
Moodle moodle=2.3.1

Event History

Sep 19, 2012
CVE Published
via MITRE·10:00 AM
Data Sourced
via MITRE·10:00 AM
Description

Frequently Asked Questions

1

Which Moodle deployments are affected?

Moodle 2.2.x installations before 2.2.5 and Moodle 2.3.x installations before 2.3.2 are affected. The issue applies to authenticated users who have course-editing capabilities.

2

What level of access does an attacker need?

An attacker must be able to authenticate to Moodle and have course-editing capabilities. Exploitation does not require network-local access or high attack complexity.

3

What is the remediation?

Apply the available patch by updating to Moodle 2.2.5 or later in the 2.2.x branch, or Moodle 2.3.2 or later in the 2.3.x branch.

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