PT-2012-2871 · Moodle · Moodle

Vincent Danen · Published 2012-07-17 · Updated 2023-02-13 · CVE-2012-0794

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Moodle versions 1.9.x through 1.9.15 Moodle versions 2.0.x through 2.0.6 Moodle versions 2.1.x through 2.1.3 Moodle versions 2.2.x through 2.2.0

Description The issue concerns the use of a hardcoded password in the rc4encrypt function, making it easier for remote attackers to defeat cryptographic protection mechanisms by reading the script's source code.

Recommendations For Moodle versions 1.9.x through 1.9.15, update to version 1.9.16 or later. For Moodle versions 2.0.x through 2.0.6, update to version 2.0.7 or later. For Moodle versions 2.1.x through 2.1.3, update to version 2.1.4 or later. For Moodle versions 2.2.x through 2.2.0, update to version 2.2.1 or later.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-255

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-0794

DSA-2421-1

Affected Products

Moodle

References · 6

• http://debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2421 · Vendor Advisory
• http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=194013 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-0794 · Security Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=783532 · Note
• http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=98456628a24bba25d336860d38a45b5a4e3895da · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-0794 · Note