Information disclosure in Moodle - CVE-2012-2353
Published: July 21, 2012 / Updated: August 11, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU43819
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-2012-2353
CWE-ID: CWE-200
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote #AU# to gain access to sensitive information.
Moodle 2.1.x before 2.1.6 and 2.2.x before 2.2.3 allows remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive user information from hidden fields by leveraging the teacher role and navigating to "Enrolled users" under the Users Settings section.
Affected software
Moodle
Fedora
moodle
Fedora
moodle
How to mitigate CVE-2012-2353
Install update from vendor's website.
moodle - addressed in versions 1.9.19-1.el5, 1.9.19-2.el5, 1.9.19-3.el5, 2.1.6-1.el6, 2.1.7-1.el6