GHSA-c3vx-v4x8-x894

Moodle does not check for the moodle/course:viewhiddencourses capability

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2014-0217

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
Packagist	moodle/moodle	>= 2.6.0, < 2.6.3	2.6.3

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

enrol/index.php in Moodle 2.6.x before 2.6.3 does not check for the moodle/course:viewhiddencourses capability before listing hidden courses, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive name and summary information about these courses by leveraging the guest role and visiting a crafted URL.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-0217 advisory
https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/eaea796e70f6630494d3772684604ab6e907f4ac web
https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/fcf199e7a13e453bfe3855c6946e8357fcbdef92 web
https://github.com/moodle/moodle package
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=260365 web
http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-45126 web
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/05/19/1 web