CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-4279
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-07-16
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-200
Description
Moodle 2.0.x before 2.0.2 does not use the forceloginforprofiles setting for course-profiles access control, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain potentially sensitive information via vectors involving use of a search engine, as demonstrated by the search functionality of Google, Yahoo!, Wrensoft Zoom, MSN, Yandex, and AltaVista.
Affected configurations
• moodle moodle 2.0.0
• moodle moodle 2.0.1
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor weakness
References
- http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=81b58cc227cf96a1cd2e002cc210b7b3e376fd17 git.moodle.org
- http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=170004 Vendor Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/14/1 openwall.com
- http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=81b58cc227cf96a1cd2e002cc210b7b3e376fd17 git.moodle.org
- http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=170004 Vendor Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/14/1 openwall.com