CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2018-10889

Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File

Published: Jul 10, 2018 | Modified: Oct 09, 2019
CVSS 3.x
5.3
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

A flaw was found in moodle before versions 3.5.1, 3.4.4, 3.3.7. No option existed to omit logs from data privacy exports, which may contain details of other users who interacted with the requester.

Weakness

Information written to log files can be of a sensitive nature and give valuable guidance to an attacker or expose sensitive user information.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Moodle Moodle 3.3.0 (including) 3.3.7 (excluding)
Moodle Moodle 3.4.0 (including) 3.4.4 (excluding)
Moodle Moodle 3.5.0 (including) 3.5.1 (excluding)
Moodle Ubuntu artful *
Moodle Ubuntu bionic *
Moodle Ubuntu cosmic *
Moodle Ubuntu disco *
Moodle Ubuntu eoan *
Moodle Ubuntu trusty *
Moodle Ubuntu xenial *

Extended Description

While logging all information may be helpful during development stages, it is important that logging levels be set appropriately before a product ships so that sensitive user data and system information are not accidentally exposed to potential attackers. Different log files may be produced and stored for:

Potential Mitigations

References