PT-2013-1889 · Moodle · Moodle

Dan Poltawski · Published 2013-01-27 · Updated 2022-05-13 · CVE-2012-6099

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.0

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Moodle versions 2.1.x through 2.1.9 Moodle versions 2.2.x through 2.2.6 Moodle versions 2.3.x through 2.3.3 Moodle versions 2.4.x through 2.4.0

Description The issue is related to the moodle1 backup converter in Moodle, which does not properly validate pathnames. This allows remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files by leveraging the backup-restoration feature.

Recommendations For Moodle versions 2.1.x through 2.1.9, update to version 2.1.10 or later. For Moodle versions 2.2.x through 2.2.6, update to version 2.2.7 or later. For Moodle versions 2.3.x through 2.3.3, update to version 2.3.4 or later. For Moodle versions 2.4.x through 2.4.0, update to version 2.4.1 or later.

Fix

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-6099

GHSA-CR78-RPHW-W73P

Affected Products

Moodle

References · 13

• https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=220160 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-6099 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-6099 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-cr78-rphw-w73p · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2012-6099 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2012-6099 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/moodle/moodle · Note
• https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/0ab681d3e7bed2a37430387f9da8504c0b077d10 · Note
• https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/7b66137f7bcc84fb5eb07f58fb658b21bf37cc44 · Note
• http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-36977 · Note
• https://moodle.org/security · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/01/21 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/01/21/1 · Note