Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package moodle  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1610-MOODLE-664120
  • published20 Jan 2017
  • disclosed20 Jan 2017

Introduced: 20 Jan 2017

CVE-2016-7038  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-640  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:16.10.

NVD Description

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

In Moodle 2.x and 3.x, web service tokens are not invalidated when the user password is changed or forced to be changed.