PT-2012-1921 · Moodle · Moodle

Published 2012-07-20 · Updated 2020-12-01 · CVE-2011-4589

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:P

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

Description The issue concerns the handling of course ID numbers during a restore action. It allows remote authenticated users to overwrite ID numbers due to a lack of privilege checking for the moodle/course:changeidnumber privilege in the backup/moodle2/restore stepslib.php file.

Recommendations 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-264

Related Identifiers

CVE-2011-4589

Affected Products

Moodle

References · 5

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-4589 · Security Note
• http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=191758 · Vendor Advisory
• http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-29591 · Patch
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=761248 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-4589 · Note