PT-2012-1842 · Moodle · Moodle

Kurt Seifried · Published 2012-07-16 · Updated 2022-05-13 · CVE-2011-4294

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.8

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Moodle versions 1.9.x through 1.9.12 Moodle versions 2.0.x through 2.0.3 Moodle versions 2.1.x through 2.1.0

Description The error-message functionality does not ensure that a continuation link refers to an http or https URL for the local Moodle instance. This might allow attackers to trick users into visiting arbitrary web sites via error message links that lead offsite.

Recommendations For Moodle versions 1.9.x through 1.9.12, update to version 1.9.13 or later. For Moodle versions 2.0.x through 2.0.3, update to version 2.0.4 or later. For Moodle versions 2.1.x through 2.1.0, update to version 2.1.1 or later.

Fix

Open Redirect

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-601

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2011-4294

DSA-2338-1

GHSA-HXMP-8F47-X9FC

Affected Products

Moodle

References · 10

• http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=182737 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-4294 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-hxmp-8f47-x9fc · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/moodle/moodle · Note
• https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/417fdfab6bbdcfc3f5b64704ec06912ae9cd1050 · Note
• https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/8f9f666c902cb30ef6f519353f38c45a29fdf4a6 · Note
• https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/18c2fcf8f19e00f0e89421d8fd8b7486a6dc6f79 · Note
• http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=8f9f666c902cb30ef6f519353f38c45a29fdf4a6 · Note
• http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git;a=commit;h=8f9f666c902cb30ef6f519353f38c45a29fdf4a6 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/14/1 · Note