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Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password Affecting moodle/moodle package, versions <2.7.16 >=2.9, <2.9.8 >=3.0, <3.0.6 >=3.1, <3.1.2

0.0
high

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.09% (36th percentile)
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NVD
7.3 high

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PHP-MOODLEMOODLE-6673226
  • published 24 Apr 2024
  • disclosed 13 May 2022
  • credit Juan Leyva
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Introduced: 13 May 2022

CVE-2016-7038 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-640 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade moodle/moodle to version 2.7.16, 2.9.8, 3.0.6, 3.1.2 or higher.

Overview

moodle/moodle is a learning platform.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password due to the weak password recovery mechanism for forgotten passwords. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability by leveraging the fact that web service tokens are not invalidated when the user's password is changed or forced to be changed.