Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Fedora and Moodle - CVE-2013-1830
Published: March 25, 2013 / Updated: August 11, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU42958
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: 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/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2013-1830
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Fedoraproject
moodle.org
moodle.org
Affected software:
Fedora
Moodle
Fedora
Moodle
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to gain access to sensitive information.
user/view.php in Moodle through 2.1.10, 2.2.x before 2.2.8, 2.3.x before 2.3.5, and 2.4.x before 2.4.2 does not enforce the forceloginforprofiles setting, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive course-profile information by leveraging the guest role, as demonstrated by a Google search.
How to mitigate CVE-2013-1830
Install update from vendor's website.
Sources
- http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-37481
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-April/101310.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-April/101358.html
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/03/25/2
- https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=225341