PT-2016-5031 · Moodle · Moodle

Matt Jenner · Published 2016-03-25 · Updated 2022-05-13 · CVE-2016-2151

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

4.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Moodle versions 2.6.11 and earlier, 2.7.x through 2.7.12, 2.8.x through 2.8.10, 2.9.x through 2.9.4, 3.0.x through 3.0.2

Description The issue allows remote authenticated users to discover student e-mail addresses by leveraging the teacher role and reading a Participants list, due to excessive authorization granted by the moodle/course:viewhiddenuserfields capability in the user/index.php file.

Recommendations For Moodle versions 2.6.11 and earlier, update to version 2.7.13 or later. For Moodle versions 2.7.x through 2.7.12, update to version 2.7.13 or later. For Moodle versions 2.8.x through 2.8.10, update to version 2.8.11 or later. For Moodle versions 2.9.x through 2.9.4, update to version 2.9.5 or later. For Moodle versions 3.0.x through 3.0.2, update to version 3.0.3 or later.

Fix

Information Disclosure

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-200

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-2151

GHSA-R3FC-HX6Q-G6CQ

MGASA-2016-0122

Affected Products

Moodle

References · 28

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-2151 · Security Note
• https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=330173 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2016-0122 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-r3fc-hx6q-g6cq · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0122.html · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-2151 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/moodle/moodle · Note
• https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/a0034bb01773e36dffed2a665646f9cc31d68d5b · Note
• https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/85380c6b616e82e31115fbb585d37f0e15f8b0b2 · Note
• https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/089ab60017cd3207990658fbd37f7f31948539fa · Note
• https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/8e24a54e526c149469bd77c910876c4489e87841 · Note
• https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/094fddd00f2e8e832e21e80f417c7b88b33a1f27 · Note
• https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=330181 · Note
• https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=330176 · Note
• https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=330175 · Note