Moodle up to 3.7.2 Inline Attachment improper authorization

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A vulnerability was found in Moodle up to 3.7.2. It has been rated as critical. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component Inline Attachment Handler. The manipulation leads to improper authorization. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2019-14883. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

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A vulnerability was found in Moodle up to 3.7.2 (Learning Management Software) and classified as problematic. This issue affects an unknown function of the component Inline Attachment Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a improper authorization vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-285. The product does not perform or incorrectly performs an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action. Impacted is confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

A vulnerability was found in Moodle through version 3.6 before 3.6.7 and 3.7 before 3.7.3, where tokens used to fetch inline atachments in email notifications were not disabled when a user's account was no longer active. Note: to access files, a user would need to know the file path, and their token.

The weakness was released 03/18/2020 as not defined bug report (Bugzilla). The advisory is shared at bugzilla.redhat.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2019-14883 since 08/10/2019. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1548.002 for this issue.

Upgrading to version 3.6.7 or 3.7.3 eliminates this vulnerability.

Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at VDB-151782, VDB-151780 and VDB-151779. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Type

• Learning Management Software

Name

• Moodle

Version

• 3.6.0
• 3.6.1
• 3.6.2
• 3.6.3
• 3.6.4
• 3.6.5
• 3.6.6
• 3.7.0
• 3.7.1
• 3.7.2

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• open-source

Website

• Product: https://moodle.org/

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