PT-2013-1893 · Moodle · Moodle

Andrew Nicols · Published 2013-01-27 · Updated 2020-12-01 · CVE-2012-6103

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.8

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions 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 affects the messaging system in Moodle, specifically in the user/messageselect.php file. It allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of arbitrary users for requests that send course messages due to multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities.

Recommendations 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

CSRF

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-352

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-6103

Affected Products

Moodle

References · 10

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-6103 · Security Note
• https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=220164 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-6103 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2012-6103 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2012-6103 · Vendor Advisory
• https://moodle.org/security · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/01/21 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-6103 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/01/21/1 · Note
• http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-36600 · Note