Information disclosure in Moodle - CVE-2012-1169
Published: November 14, 2019 / Updated: July 17, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU30613
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2012-1169
CWE-ID: CWE-200
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to gain access to sensitive information.
Moodle before 2.2.2 has Personal information disclosure, when administrative setting users name display is set to first name only full names are shown in page breadcrumbs.
Affected software
Moodle
Fedora
moodle
Fedora
moodle
How to mitigate CVE-2012-1169
Install update from vendor's website.
Moodle - update to 2.2.2
moodle - addressed in versions 2.1.5-1.el6, 2.1.5-2.el6, 2.1.5-3.el6
moodle - addressed in versions 2.1.5-1.el6, 2.1.5-2.el6, 2.1.5-3.el6
External References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/077635.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/078209.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/078210.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/080712.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/081047.html
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-1169
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-1169
- https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=198625
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-1169