Ubuntu 7.10 / 8.04 LTS : moodle vulnerability (USN-658-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 36491

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.

Description

Lukasz Pilorz discovered that the HTML filtering used in Moodle was not strict enough. A remote attacker could send malicious requests to Moodle and execute arbitrary code as the web server user.

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Solution

Update the affected moodle package.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/658-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 36491

File Name: ubuntu_USN-658-1.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/23/2009

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:moodle, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:-:lts

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/23/2008

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/25/2008

Exploitable With

CANVAS (D2ExploitPack)

Elliot (Moodle <= 1.8.4 RCE)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-1502

CWE: 79

USN: 658-1