PT-2014-5422 · Moodle · Moodle

Amanda Doughty · Published 2014-09-15 · Updated 2022-05-13 · CVE-2014-3617

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 prior to 2.4.11 Moodle versions 2.5.x prior to 2.5.8 Moodle versions 2.6.x prior to 2.6.5 Moodle versions 2.7.x prior to 2.7.2

Description The issue allows remote authenticated users to bypass the individual answer-posting requirement and discover an author's username by leveraging the student role and visiting a Q&A forum. This is achieved through the forum print latest discussions function in mod/forum/lib.php.

Recommendations For Moodle versions prior to 2.4.11, update to version 2.4.11 or later. For Moodle versions 2.5.x prior to 2.5.8, update to version 2.5.8 or later. For Moodle versions 2.6.x prior to 2.6.5, update to version 2.6.5 or later. For Moodle versions 2.7.x prior to 2.7.2, update to version 2.7.2 or later.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-264

Related Identifiers

CVE-2014-3617

GHSA-P5J7-26WJ-423J

MGASA-2014-0379

Affected Products

Moodle

References · 22

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-p5j7-26wj-423j · Vendor Advisory
• https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=269591 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-3617 · Security Note
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0379.html · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2014-0379 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/moodle/moodle · Note
• https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/1c5d2aefd1c6706176e97b99b2f9deef582564be · Note
• https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/b1325427ecefb23002d3c79a7222e98f3995c0fb · Note
• https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/b2b8d932f11c089b59b6c5ce439487ae3e5d79aa · Note
• https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/1f3066f1977cf9ba36bb2583597af8bc53eb7d0f · Note
• https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/95c3874b717e19711780147c29285e56ca01ff79 · Note
• https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/8f2e80600bf0fc220b92706907fb3d683602e5c2 · Note
• https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/ebbff905629fbd87a6a81cc471964e995fba3eb0 · Note
• https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/982c8524dd27066a6893a4b2ff2c41d60f9bdc23 · Note
• https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/a80ed84ed37d24e564b0bb7b8d51c4206b1fcd54 · Note