PT-2017-8417 · Moodle · Moodle

Donna Hrynkiw · Published 2017-04-20 · Updated 2022-05-13 · CVE-2016-3733

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

4.3

Medium

Base vector

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

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

Description The issue allows remote authenticated users to overwrite the course idnumber using the "restore teacher" feature.

Recommendations For Moodle versions 3.0 through 3.0.3, update to a version outside of this range to resolve the issue. For Moodle versions 2.9 through 2.9.5, update to a version outside of this range to resolve the issue. For Moodle versions 2.8 through 2.8.11, update to a version outside of this range to resolve the issue. For Moodle versions 2.7 through 2.7.13, update to a version outside of this range to resolve the issue. For Moodle versions prior to 2.7, update to a version outside of this range to resolve the issue.

Fix

Improper Access Control

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-284

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-3733

GHSA-GR8J-QM8R-RFGG

Affected Products

Moodle

References · 15

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-gr8j-qm8r-rfgg · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-3733 · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-3733 · Security Note
• http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-51369 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-3733 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-3733 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-3733 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/2950f9fb9128f9ae48e00b864da90be76c2bf139 · Note
• https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/3c9d2b104023a8b9fdc5f4d7e136083babd2609a · Note
• https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/12c28574868d6f6e5c57fb63298c82cb8bdd0bb6 · Note
• https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/24b0c3c86ae96e46b87d6e9d6bcf4a6014dae8f0 · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id/1035902 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-3733 · Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1335933 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/17/4 · Note