Moodle up to 1.7.2 access control

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Moodle up to 1.7.2. This issue affects some unknown processing. The manipulation leads to access control. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2008-6125. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Moodle up to 1.7.2 (Learning Management Software). This issue affects an unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-264. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Unspecified vulnerability in the user editing interface in Moodle 1.5.x, 1.6 before 1.6.6, and 1.7 before 1.7.3 allows remote authenticated users to gain privileges via unknown vectors.

The weakness was presented 02/12/2009 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at moodle.org. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2008-6125 since 02/12/2009. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. The successful exploitation needs a simple authentication. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 35254 (Debian DSA-1691-1 : moodle - several vulnerabilities), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Debian Local Security Checks and running in the context l.

Upgrading to version 1.6.1 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published before and not just after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (35254) and SecurityFocus (BID 28599†). See VDB-37631 and VDB-46522 for similar entries. Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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Type

• Learning Management Software

Name

• Moodle

Version

• 1.5
• 1.5 Beta
• 1.5.1
• 1.5.2
• 1.5.3
• 1.6
• 1.6.1
• 1.6.2
• 1.6.3
• 1.6.4
• 1.6.5
• 1.7
• 1.7.1
• 1.7.2

License

• open-source

Website

• Product: https://moodle.org/

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