Improper Access Control Affecting moodle/moodle package, versions <2.7.14>=2.8, <2.8.12>=2.9, <2.9.6>=3.0, <3.0.4


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-6231022
  • published7 Feb 2024
  • disclosed13 May 2022
  • creditDonna Hrynkiw

Introduced: 13 May 2022

CVE-2016-3733  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-284  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade moodle/moodle to version 2.7.14, 2.8.12, 2.9.6, 3.0.4 or higher.

Overview

moodle/moodle is a learning platform.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Access Control via the restore teacher feature. An attacker can overwrite the course idnumber.