CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2019-3849

Improper Privilege Management

Published: Mar 26, 2019 | Modified: Oct 16, 2020
CVSS 3.x
8.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
6.5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

A vulnerability was found in moodle before versions 3.6.3, 3.5.5 and 3.4.8. Users could assign themselves an escalated role within courses or content accessed via LTI, by modifying the request to the LTI publisher site.

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 * 3.4.8 (excluding)
Moodle Moodle 3.5.0 (including) 3.5.5 (excluding)
Moodle Moodle 3.6.0 (including) 3.6.3 (excluding)

Potential Mitigations

References