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Moodle: Missing Authorization (CVE-2020-25629)

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Moodle: Missing Authorization (CVE-2020-25629)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
12/08/2020
Created
12/11/2020
Added
12/10/2020
Modified
10/24/2022

Description

A vulnerability was found in Moodle where users with "Log in as" capability in a course context (typically, course managers) may gain access to some site administration capabilities by "logging in as" a System manager. This affects 3.9 to 3.9.1, 3.8 to 3.8.4, 3.7 to 3.7.7, 3.5 to 3.5.13 and earlier unsupported versions. This is fixed in 3.9.2, 3.8.5, 3.7.8 and 3.5.14.

Solution(s)

  • moodle-upgrade-3_5_14
  • moodle-upgrade-3_7_8
  • moodle-upgrade-3_8_5
  • moodle-upgrade-3_9_2

References

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