PT-2012-3978 · Moodle · Moodle

Chris Follin · CVE-2012-2357 · Published 2012-07-21 · Updated 2023-02-13

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 2.1.x through 2.1.5 Moodle versions 2.2.x through 2.2.2

Description The issue concerns the Multi-Authentication feature in the Central Authentication Service (CAS) functionality. It does not utilize HTTPS, allowing remote attackers to obtain credentials by sniffing the network.

Recommendations For Moodle versions 2.1.x through 2.1.5, update to version 2.1.6 or later. For Moodle versions 2.2.x through 2.2.2, update to version 2.2.3 or later.

Fix

Information Disclosure

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-200

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-2357

Affected Products

Moodle

References · 7

• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-2357 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2012-2357 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-2357 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2012-2357 · Vendor Advisory
• http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=895e76ea51c462c18ad66e0761ad76cd26a63ecf · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/23/2 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-2357 · Note