PT-2012-3980 · Moodle · Moodle

Jozas Nhial · Published 2012-07-21 · Updated 2023-02-13 · CVE-2012-2359

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.5

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Moodle versions 2.0.x through 2.0.8 Moodle versions 2.1.x through 2.1.5 Moodle versions 2.2.x through 2.2.2

Description The issue allows remote authenticated users to gain privileges by leveraging the teacher role and modifying their own capabilities. This can be demonstrated by obtaining the backup:userinfo capability.

Recommendations For Moodle versions 2.0.x through 2.0.8, update to version 2.0.9 or later. 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

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-264

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-2359

Affected Products

Moodle

References · 7

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2012-2359 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2012-2359 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-2359 · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-2359 · Security Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-2359 · Note
• http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=0f75e1e6272db0303abc8e27362e5c3a1344b82f · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/23/2 · Note