A vulnerability was found in Moodle (Learning Management Software). It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a improper authentication vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-287. When an actor claims to have a given identity, the product does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct. Impacted is confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

rss/file.php in Moodle through 2.1.10, 2.2.x before 2.2.11, 2.3.x before 2.3.8, 2.4.x before 2.4.5, and 2.5.x before 2.5.1 does not properly implement the use of RSS tokens for impersonation, which allows remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive block information by reading an RSS feed.

The weakness was released 07/29/2013 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at moodle.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2013-2245 since 02/19/2013. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. A simple authentication is required for exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 69006 (Fedora 18 : moodle-2.3.8-2.fc18 (2013-12950)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Fedora Local Security Checks and running in the context l.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published even before and not after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (69006). Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at 64557, 64555, 64554 and 64553.

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• Learning Management Software

Name

• Moodle

Version

• 2.1
• 2.1.1
• 2.1.2
• 2.1.3
• 2.1.4
• 2.1.5
• 2.1.6
• 2.1.7
• 2.1.8
• 2.1.9
• 2.1.10
• 2.2
• 2.2.1
• 2.2.2
• 2.2.3
• 2.2.4
• 2.2.5
• 2.2.6
• 2.2.7
• 2.2.8
• 2.2.9
• 2.2.10
• 2.3.1
• 2.3.2
• 2.3.3
• 2.3.4
• 2.3.5
• 2.3.6
• 2.3.7
• 2.4.1
• 2.4.2
• 2.4.3
• 2.4.4

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• open-source

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