Improper Handling of Insufficient Permissions or Privileges Affecting moodle/moodle package, versions <2.6.7 >=2.7.0-beta, <2.7.4 >=2.8.0-beta, <2.8.2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.12% (48th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PHP-MOODLEMOODLE-6209163
  • published 28 Jan 2024
  • disclosed 13 May 2022
  • credit Petr Skoda

How to fix?

Upgrade moodle/moodle to version 2.6.7, 2.7.4, 2.8.2 or higher.

Overview

moodle/moodle is a learning platform.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Handling of Insufficient Permissions or Privileges due to improper capability checks in the mod/lti/ajax.php endpoint. An attacker can obtain sensitive information by making requests to the LTI Ajax service without the required moodle/course:manageactivities and mod/lti:addinstance capabilities.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
4.3 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    Low
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    Low
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    None
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NVD

4.3 medium