A vulnerability has been found in Moodle up to 2.1.1 (Learning Management Software) and classified as problematic. This vulnerability affects an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

The chat functionality in Moodle 2.0.x before 2.0.5 and 2.1.x before 2.1.2 allows remote authenticated users to discover the name of any user via a beep operation.

The weakness was published 07/11/2012 as Bug 747444 as not defined bug report (Bugzilla). The advisory is shared for download at bugzilla.redhat.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2011-4304 since 11/04/2011. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be initiated remotely. A single authentication is needed for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1592.

Upgrading to version 2.0.1 eliminates this vulnerability.

Similar entries are available at VDB-61245, VDB-61244, VDB-61243 and VDB-61242. Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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• Learning Management Software

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• Moodle

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• 2.0
• 2.0.1
• 2.0.2
• 2.0.3
• 2.0.4
• 2.1
• 2.1.1

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• open-source

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