Information disclosure in Moodle - CVE-2012-2357
Published: July 21, 2012 / Updated: August 11, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU43823
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [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]
CVE-ID: CVE-2012-2357
CWE-ID: CWE-200
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to gain access to sensitive information.
The Multi-Authentication feature in the Central Authentication Service (CAS) functionality in auth/cas/cas_form.html in Moodle 2.1.x before 2.1.6 and 2.2.x before 2.2.3 does not use HTTPS, which allows remote attackers to obtain credentials by sniffing the network.
Affected software
Moodle
Fedora
moodle
Fedora
moodle
How to mitigate CVE-2012-2357
Install update from vendor's website.
moodle - update to 2.1.6-1.el6