PT-2014-8301 · Moodle · Moodle

Petr Skoda · Published 2014-11-22 · Updated 2022-05-13 · CVE-2014-7834

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 2.6.x through 2.6.5 Moodle versions 2.7.x through 2.7.2

Description The issue allows remote authenticated users to access a forum without proper group permission verification. This is due to a problem in the mod/forum/externallib.php file, specifically with the forum get discussions web service.

Recommendations For Moodle versions 2.6.x through 2.6.5, update to version 2.6.6 or later. For Moodle versions 2.7.x through 2.7.2, update to version 2.7.3 or later.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-264

Related Identifiers

CVE-2014-7834

GHSA-557F-2HV4-7JJM

MGASA-2014-0483

Affected Products

Moodle

References · 29

• https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=275159 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-557f-2hv4-7jjm · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-7834 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2014-0483 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0483.html · Security Note
• https://github.com/moodle/moodle · Note
• https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/40afeb4044c9718bf175c347f0f9099a037ce9f0 · Note
• https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/3aa9d93c7a78d14fa30e2afbfd8fa7e09bc9cb41 · Note
• https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/79eda0e9a0d15ba1d87187ec712f96abd62748c1 · Note
• https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=275164 · Note
• https://web.archive.org/web/20150914064838/http://securitytracker.com/id/1031215 · Note
• https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=275157 · Note
• http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-45303 · Note
• https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=275165 · Note
• https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=275163 · Note