Improper Access Control Affecting moodle/moodle package, versions <2.7.13>=2.8, <2.8.11>=2.9, <2.9.5>=3.0, <3.0.3


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.15% (53rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PHP-MOODLEMOODLE-6209239
  • published29 Jan 2024
  • disclosed13 May 2022
  • creditJuan Leyva

Introduced: 13 May 2022

CVE-2016-2159  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-284  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade moodle/moodle to version 2.7.13, 2.8.11, 2.9.5, 3.0.3 or higher.

Overview

moodle/moodle is a learning platform.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Access Control due to improper validation of due-date restrictions within the mod_assign_save_submission function. An attacker can bypass these restrictions by leveraging the student role for a web-service request.