PT-2020-9622 · Moodle+1 · Moodle+1

Juan Leyva · Published 2019-11-16 · Updated 2022-05-24 · CVE-2019-14883

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.3

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Moodle versions 3.6 through 3.6.6 Moodle versions 3.7 through 3.7.2

Description A vulnerability was found where tokens used to fetch inline attachments in email notifications were not disabled when a user's account was no longer active. To access files, a user would need to know the file path and their token.

Recommendations For Moodle versions 3.6 through 3.6.6, update to version 3.6.7 or later. For Moodle versions 3.7 through 3.7.2, update to version 3.7.3 or later. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to email notifications and inline attachments for inactive user accounts until a patch is available.

Fix

Improper Authorization

Missing Authorization

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-285

CWE-862

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2019-3145

ALT-PU-2020-1250

CVE-2019-14883

GHSA-774Q-WFCP-VC2Q

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Moodle

References · 7

• https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=393586#p1586750 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-14883 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-14883 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-14883 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-774q-wfcp-vc2q · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/moodle/moodle · Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/1845 · Telegram Post