CVE-2011-4293
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
6.4
Description
Moodle Double-Caches Content, Potentially Writing to a File System's Tmp Directory
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
Package impact
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Packagist | moodle/moodle | >=2.0,<2.0.4 | 2.0.4 |
| Packagist | moodle/moodle | >=2.1,<2.1.1 | 2.1.1 |
References
- http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e1c2a211f259821910be2cba23679d4176fb00a3
- http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=182736
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/14/1
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-4293
- https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/05f4555422278190ec24a88466ac43c914a7e5d6
- https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/9a380fbb53429713b3c422a3146456dc97205329
- https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/e1c2a211f259821910be2cba23679d4176fb00a3
- https://github.com/moodle/moodle
- http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git;a=commit;h=e1c2a211f259821910be2cba23679d4176fb00a3
CWEs
CWE-264
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.