Information Exposure The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package moodle  (opens in a new tab)


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1.71% (77th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-MOODLE-362276
  • published22 May 2016
  • disclosed22 May 2016

Introduced: 22 May 2016

CVE-2016-2158  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:14.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream moodle package and not the moodle package as distributed by Ubuntu.

lib/ajax/getnavbranch.php in Moodle through 2.6.11, 2.7.x before 2.7.13, 2.8.x before 2.8.11, 2.9.x before 2.9.5, and 3.0.x before 3.0.3, when the forcelogin feature is enabled, allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive category-detail information from the navigation branch by leveraging the guest role for an Ajax request.