PT-2012-1919 · Moodle · Moodle

Stephen Mc Guiness · Published 2012-07-20 · Updated 2023-02-13 · CVE-2011-4587

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.8

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Moodle versions 1.9.x through 1.9.14 Moodle versions 2.0.x through 2.0.5 Moodle versions 2.1.x through 2.1.2

Description The issue makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain access by leveraging the possible existence of user accounts that have unchangeable blank passwords, due to improper handling of certain zero values in the password policy.

Recommendations For Moodle versions 1.9.x through 1.9.14, update to version 1.9.15 or later. For Moodle versions 2.0.x through 2.0.5, update to version 2.0.6 or later. For Moodle versions 2.1.x through 2.1.2, update to version 2.1.3 or later.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-255

Related Identifiers

CVE-2011-4587

DSA-2421-1

Affected Products

Moodle

References · 6

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-4587 · Security Note
• http://debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2421 · Vendor Advisory
• http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=191755 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=761248 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-4587 · Note
• http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e079e82c087becf06d902089d14f3f76686bde19 · Note