Information disclosure in Moodle and Fedora - CVE-2016-0724
Published: February 22, 2016 / Updated: August 9, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU40452
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.3 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-0724
CWE-ID: CWE-200
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote authenticated user to gain access to sensitive information.
The (1) core_enrol_get_course_enrolment_methods and (2) enrol_self_get_instance_info web services in Moodle through 2.6.11, 2.7.x before 2.7.12, 2.8.x before 2.8.10, 2.9.x before 2.9.4, and 3.0.x before 3.0.2 do not consider the moodle/course:viewhiddencourses capability, which allows remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive information via a web-service request.
Affected software
Moodle
Fedora
moodle
Fedora
moodle
How to mitigate CVE-2016-0724
Install update from vendor's website.
moodle - addressed in versions 2.7.19-1.el6, 2.8.10-1.fc22, 2.9.4-1.fc23, 3.0.2-1.el7
External References
- http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-52072
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/176502.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/176436.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/18/1
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034694
- https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=326205