Moodle 2.1.x before 2.1.6 and 2.2.x before 2.2.3 allows remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive user information from hidden fields by leveraging the teacher role and navigating to "Enrolled users" under the Users Settings section.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - Moodle 2.1.x before 2.1.6 and 2.2.x before 2.2.3 allows remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive
    user information from hidden fields by leveraging the teacher role and navigating to "Enrolled users"
    under the Users Settings section. (CVE-2012-2353)

The remote web server hosts Moodle, an open-source course management system. Versions of Moodle 2.1.x prior to 2.1.6, or 2.2.x prior to 2.2.3 are exposed to the following vulnerabilities :

  - An information disclosure flaw that allows remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive user information from hidden fields by leveraging the teacher role and navigating to "Enrolled users" under the Users Settings section. (MSA-12-0024 / CVE-2012-2353)

  - A flaw that may lead to an unauthorized information disclosure. The issue is triggered by an error in the 'recent conversations' functionality, which may allow a remote attacker to gain access to other user's messages by manipulating URL parameters. (MSA-12-0025 / CVE-2012-2354)

  - A permissions flaw that is triggered when the 'question:use' permissions are not properly checked when adding questions to a quiz. This may allow an attacker to add arbitrary questions to a quiz. (MSA-12-0026 / CVE-2012-2355)

  - A flaw that is triggered by an error when handling access permissions in the question bank, which may allow a remote attacker to create arbitrary questions. (MSA-12-0027 / CVE-2012-2356)

  - A page in the CAS Authentication process was using an insecure HTTP URL that, apart from being insecure, sent the user in circles. (MSA-12-0028 / CVE-2012-2357)

  - A write access flaw that allows users to overwrite site-wide database activity presets created by other users. (MSA-12-0037 / CVE-2012-2366)

Latest upstreams to address security issues.

CVE-2012-3387 CVE-2012-3388 CVE-2012-3389 CVE-2012-3390 CVE-2012-3391 CVE-2012-3392 CVE-2012-3393 CVE-2012-3394 CVE-2012-3395 CVE-2012-3396 CVE-2012-3397 CVE-2012-3398

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
432467	SCA: security update for moodle/moodle (GHSA-mr97-gvvg-rhgh)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	medium
432467	SCA: security update for moodle/moodle (GHSA-mr97-gvvg-rhgh)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	medium
432391	SCA: security update for moodle/moodle (GHSA-mr97-gvvg-rhgh)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	medium
432391	SCA: security update for moodle/moodle (GHSA-mr97-gvvg-rhgh)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	medium
8715	Moodle 2.1.x < 2.1.6 / 2.2.x < 2.2.3 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus Network Monitor	CGI	medium
61386	Fedora 17 : moodle-2.2.4-1.fc17 (2012-11039)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
61385	Fedora 16 : moodle-2.0.10-1.fc16 (2012-11028)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium

Detections

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CVE-2012-2353

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