GHSA-v2rh-5v88-rgvh

Moodle context freezing

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2019-3852

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
Packagist	moodle/moodle	>= 3.6, < 3.6.3	3.6.3

Details

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

A vulnerability was found in moodle before version 3.6.3. The get_with_capability_join and get_users_by_capability functions were not taking context freezing into account when checking user capabilities

References

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

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-3852 advisory
https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/5ee3cbc624c1c4d39adc08c2121a1738d6b5e700 web
https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/90c2e5e707c27cd1ef0b992cc5e55e76dcd17204 web
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3852 web
https://github.com/moodle/moodle package
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=384015#p1547748 web
https://web.archive.org/web/20210624085935/http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-64410 web