Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Moodle - CVE-2016-2190
Published: May 22, 2016 / Updated: August 9, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU40268
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-2016-2190
CWE-ID: CWE-264
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 through 2.6.11, 2.7.x before 2.7.13, 2.8.x before 2.8.11, 2.9.x before 2.9.5, and 3.0.x before 3.0.3 does not properly restrict links, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive URL information by reading a Referer log.
Affected software
Moodle
Fedora
moodle
Fedora
moodle
How to mitigate CVE-2016-2190
Install update from vendor's website.
moodle - addressed in versions 2.7.19-1.el6, 2.8.11-1.fc22, 2.9.5-1.fc23, 3.0.3-1.el7, 3.0.3-1.fc24