Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Moodle - CVE-2013-2080
Published: May 25, 2013 / Updated: August 11, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU42826
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2013-2080
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote #AU# to gain access to sensitive information.
The core_grade component in Moodle through 2.2.10, 2.3.x before 2.3.7, and 2.4.x before 2.4.4 does not properly consider the existence of hidden grades, which allows remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive information by leveraging the student role and reading the Gradebook Overview report.
Affected software
Moodle
Fedora
moodle
Fedora
moodle
How to mitigate CVE-2013-2080
Install update from vendor's website.
moodle - update to 2.2.10-1.el6
External References
- http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-37475
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/106965.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/106988.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/107026.html
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/21/1
- https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=228931