Information Exposure Through an Error Message Affecting moodle/moodle package, versions <2.3.5>=2.4.0, <2.4.2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.17% (56th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PHP-MOODLEMOODLE-6186517
  • published24 Jan 2024
  • disclosed13 May 2022
  • creditMarkLee131

Introduced: 13 May 2022

CVE-2013-1835  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade moodle/moodle to version 2.3.5, 2.4.2 or higher.

Overview

moodle/moodle is a learning platform.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure Through an Error Message via the login_as feature. An attacker can obtain sensitive information from the external repositories of arbitrary users by leveraging this feature. This is only exploitable if the attacker has remote authenticated administrator access.

CVSS Scores

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