PT-2016-5037 · Moodle · Moodle

Paul Holden · Published 2016-03-25 · Updated 2022-05-13 · CVE-2016-2157

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

8.8

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Moodle versions prior to 2.6.11 Moodle versions 2.7.x before 2.7.13 Moodle versions 2.8.x before 2.8.11 Moodle versions 2.9.x before 2.9.5 Moodle versions 3.0.x before 3.0.3

Description A cross-site request forgery (CSRF) issue allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that manage Assignment plugins. This can be exploited through the mod/assign/adminmanageplugins.php file.

Recommendations For Moodle versions prior to 2.6.11, update to version 2.6.11 or later. For Moodle versions 2.7.x before 2.7.13, update to version 2.7.13 or later. For Moodle versions 2.8.x before 2.8.11, update to version 2.8.11 or later. For Moodle versions 2.9.x before 2.9.5, update to version 2.9.5 or later. For Moodle versions 3.0.x before 3.0.3, update to version 3.0.3 or later.

Fix

CSRF

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-352

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-2157

GHSA-F5PM-C4CW-563P

MGASA-2016-0122

Affected Products

Moodle

References · 31

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-2157 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-2157 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2016-0122 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-2157 · Vendor Advisory
• https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=330179 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-2157 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0122.html · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-f5pm-c4cw-563p · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-2157 · Security Note
• https://github.com/moodle/moodle · Note
• https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/01b19e761f94a4f3615d5c8f6314309aa83469f3 · Note
• https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/1452f1e1d37d816648e3e015296de59509847287 · Note
• https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/55ba3a26d2710ce3c5f13287b0c3538b9a934fa4 · Note
• https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/85984545a937b0790c355473d7295eb60b0265eb · Note
• https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/a0cd21cd5cc63961243518a58e9d5d01182dbbb4 · Note