Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Moodle - CVE-2012-0793

 

Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Moodle - CVE-2012-0793

Published: July 17, 2012 / Updated: August 11, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU43858
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-2012-0793
CWE-ID: CWE-264
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.

Moodle 1.9.x before 1.9.16, 2.0.x before 2.0.7, 2.1.x before 2.1.4, and 2.2.x before 2.2.1 allows remote attackers to view the profile images of arbitrary user accounts via unspecified vectors.


Affected software

Moodle
Fedora
moodle

How to mitigate CVE-2012-0793

Install update from vendor's website.

moodle - update to 2.1.4-1.el6

External References

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