Moodle up to 1.9.3 User Account information disclosure

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Moodle up to 1.9.3. It has been rated as problematic. Impacted is an unknown function of the component User Account. The manipulation leads to information disclosure. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2009-0501. There is no available exploit. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

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A vulnerability was found in Moodle up to 1.9.3 (Learning Management Software). It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects an unknown function of the component User Account. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. Impacted is confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

Unspecified vulnerability in the Calendar export feature in Moodle 1.8 before 1.8.8 and 1.9 before 1.9.4 allows attackers to obtain sensitive information and conduct "brute force attacks on user accounts" via unknown vectors.

The bug was discovered 02/04/2008. The weakness was presented 02/09/2009 (oss-sec). It is possible to read the advisory at openwall.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2009-0501 since 02/09/2009. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1592 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 371 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 35671 (Fedora 9 : moodle-1.9.4-1.fc9 (2009-1641)), 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. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 116242 (Fedora Update for moodle (FEDORA-2009-1641)).

Upgrading to version 1.9.3 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published 4 days after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (48499), Tenable (35671), SecurityFocus (BID 33612†), OSVDB (54087†) and Secunia (SA34418†). See VDB-46699, VDB-46698, VDB-46697 and VDB-46696 for similar entries. Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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Class: Information disclosure
CWE: CWE-200 / CWE-284 / CWE-266
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Nessus ID: 35671
Nessus Name: Fedora 9 : moodle-1.9.4-1.fc9 (2009-1641)
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OpenVAS ID: 63390
OpenVAS Name: Fedora Core 9 FEDORA-2009-1641 (moodle)
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Moodle 1.9.3

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Sourcesinfo

Product: moodle.org

Advisory: openwall.com
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CVE: CVE-2009-0501 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2009-0501
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-46403

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X-Force: 48499
SecurityFocus: 33612 - Moodle Calendar Export Unspecified Information Disclosure Vulnerability
Secunia: 34418
OSVDB: 54087 - Moodle - Calendar Export - Unspecified Information Disclosure Issue
Vulnerability Center: 20855 - Moodle 1.8-1.8.7, 1.9-1.9.3 Calendar Export Feature Remote Information Disclosure Vulnerability, Medium

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Created: 03/17/2015 16:11
Updated: 08/27/2019 09:25
Changes: 03/17/2015 16:11 (76), 08/27/2019 09:25 (7)
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