Information disclosure in Moodle - CVE-2012-1155
Published: November 14, 2019 / Updated: July 17, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU30615
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2012-1155
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 has a database activity export permission issue where the export function of the database activity module exports all entries even those from groups the user does not belong to
Affected software
Moodle
Fedora
moodle
Fedora
moodle
How to mitigate CVE-2012-1155
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-2012-1155
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-1155
- https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=198621
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-1155