Moodle up to 4.1.11/4.2.8/4.3.5/4.4.1 Site Administration Preset Export missing initialization

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A vulnerability labeled as problematic has been found in Moodle up to 4.1.11/4.2.8/4.3.5/4.4.1. This affects an unknown function of the component Site Administration Preset Export. Such manipulation leads to missing initialization. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2024-43427. The attack may be launched remotely. There is no exploit available. The affected component should be upgraded.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Moodle up to 4.1.11/4.2.8/4.3.5/4.4.1 and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is an unknown part of the component Site Administration Preset Export. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a missing initialization vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-456. The product does not initialize critical variables, which causes the execution environment to use unexpected values. Impacted is confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

A flaw was found in moodle. When creating an export of site administration presets, some sensitive secrets and keys are not being excluded from the export, which could result in them unintentionally being leaked if the presets are shared with a third party.

The advisory is available at bugzilla.redhat.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-43427 since 08/13/2024. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 09/08/2025).

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 261470 (Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-43427), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 4.1.12, 4.2.9, 4.3.6 or 4.4.2 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (261470). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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Type

• Learning Management Software

Name

• Moodle

Version

• 4.1.0
• 4.1.1
• 4.1.2
• 4.1.3
• 4.1.4
• 4.1.5
• 4.1.6
• 4.1.7
• 4.1.8
• 4.1.9
• 4.1.10
• 4.1.11
• 4.2.0
• 4.2.1
• 4.2.2
• 4.2.3
• 4.2.4
• 4.2.5
• 4.2.6
• 4.2.7
• 4.2.8
• 4.3.0
• 4.3.1
• 4.3.2
• 4.3.3
• 4.3.4
• 4.3.5
• 4.4.0
• 4.4.1

License

• open-source

Website

• Product: https://moodle.org/

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