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Moodle: Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity (CVE-2020-1755)

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Moodle: Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity (CVE-2020-1755)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
08/16/2022
Created
08/29/2022
Added
08/19/2022
Modified
08/19/2022

Description

In Moodle before 3.8.2, 3.7.5, 3.6.9 and 3.5.11, X-Forwarded-For headers could be used to spoof a user's IP, in order to bypass remote address checks.

Solution(s)

  • moodle-upgrade-3_5_11
  • moodle-upgrade-3_6_9
  • moodle-upgrade-3_7_5
  • moodle-upgrade-3_8_2

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