CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-2359
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-07-21
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
admin/roles/override.php in Moodle 2.0.x before 2.0.9, 2.1.x before 2.1.6, and 2.2.x before 2.2.3 allows remote authenticated users to gain privileges by leveraging the teacher role and modifying their own capabilities, as demonstrated by obtaining the backup:userinfo capability.
Affected configurations
• moodle moodle 2.0.0
• moodle moodle 2.0.1
• moodle moodle 2.0.2
• moodle moodle 2.0.3
• moodle moodle 2.0.4
• moodle moodle 2.0.5
• moodle moodle 2.0.6
• moodle moodle 2.0.7
• moodle moodle 2.0.8
• moodle moodle 2.1.0
• moodle moodle 2.1.1
• moodle moodle 2.1.2
• moodle moodle 2.1.3
• moodle moodle 2.1.4
• moodle moodle 2.1.5
• moodle moodle 2.2.0
• moodle moodle 2.2.1
• moodle moodle 2.2.2
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=0f75e1e6272db0303abc8e27362e5c3a1344b82f git.moodle.org
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/23/2 openwall.com
- http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=0f75e1e6272db0303abc8e27362e5c3a1344b82f git.moodle.org
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/23/2 openwall.com