Moodle through 2.1.10, 2.2.x before 2.2.10, 2.3.x before 2.3.7, and 2.4.x before 2.4.4 does not enforce capability requirements for reading blog comments, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a crafted request.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - Moodle through 2.1.10, 2.2.x before 2.2.10, 2.3.x before 2.3.7, and 2.4.x before 2.4.4 does not enforce     capability requirements for reading blog comments, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive     information via a crafted request. (CVE-2013-2082)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

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

  - Moodle through 2.1.10, 2.2.x before 2.2.10, 2.3.x before 2.3.7, and 2.4.x before 2.4.4 does not enforce
    capability requirements for reading blog comments, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive
    information via a crafted request. (CVE-2013-2082)

Moodle upstream has released upstream 2.4.4, 2.3.7, and 2.2.10 versions: http://docs.moodle.org/dev/Moodle_2.2.10_release_notes http://docs.moodle.org/dev/Moodle_2.3.7_release_notes http://docs.moodle.org/dev/Moodle_2.4.4_release_notes These releases contain unspecified security fixes, the nature of which will be public next week; as per the upstream announcements: 'A number of security related issues were resolved. Details of these issues will be released after a period of approximately one week to allow system administrators to safely update to the latest version.'

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.

Moodle upstream has released upstream 2.4.4, 2.3.7, and 2.2.10 versions :

http://docs.moodle.org/dev/Moodle_2.2.10_release_notes http://docs.moodle.org/dev/Moodle_2.3.7_release_notes http://docs.moodle.org/dev/Moodle_2.4.4_release_notes

These releases contain unspecified security fixes, the nature of which will be public next week; as per the upstream announcements :

'A number of security related issues were resolved. Details of these issues will be released after a period of approximately one week to allow system administrators to safely update to the latest version.'

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
260895	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2013-2082	Nessus	Misc.	high
432442	SCA: security update for moodle/moodle (GHSA-wp3g-pr4h-q6vv)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	high
432442	SCA: security update for moodle/moodle (GHSA-wp3g-pr4h-q6vv)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	high
66652	Fedora 18 : moodle-2.3.7-1.fc18 (2013-8702)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
66651	Fedora 17 : moodle-2.2.10-1.fc17 (2013-8692)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
66646	Fedora 19 : moodle-2.4.4-1.fc19 (2013-8668)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2013-2082

high

Tenable Plugins

high

high

high

medium

medium

medium