Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Moodle - CVE-2013-2079
Published: May 25, 2013 / Updated: August 11, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU42830
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: 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/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2013-2079
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: moodle.org
Affected software:
Moodle
Moodle
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote #AU# to gain access to sensitive information.
mod/assign/locallib.php in the assignment module in Moodle 2.3.x before 2.3.7 and 2.4.x before 2.4.4 does not consider capability requirements during the processing of ZIP assignment-archive download (aka downloadall) requests, which allows remote authenticated users to read other users' assignments by leveraging the student role.
How to mitigate CVE-2013-2079
Install update from vendor's website.
Sources
- http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-38443
- 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=228930