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
Threat Intelligence
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- published24 Apr 2024
- disclosed13 May 2022
- creditJuan Leyva
Introduced: 13 May 2022
CVE-2016-7038 (opens 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.