CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2018-1134

Improper Privilege Management

Published: May 25, 2018 | Modified: Oct 03, 2019
CVSS 3.x
6.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.x
4 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

An issue was discovered in Moodle 3.x. Students who submitted assignments and exported them to portfolios can download any stored Moodle file by changing the download URL.

Weakness

The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Moodle Moodle 3.1.0 (including) 3.1.11 (including)
Moodle Moodle 3.2.0 (including) 3.2.8 (including)
Moodle Moodle 3.3.0 (including) 3.3.5 (including)
Moodle Moodle 3.4.0 (including) 3.4.2 (including)
Moodle Ubuntu artful *
Moodle Ubuntu bionic *
Moodle Ubuntu cosmic *
Moodle Ubuntu disco *
Moodle Ubuntu eoan *
Moodle Ubuntu trusty *
Moodle Ubuntu xenial *

Potential Mitigations

References