CVE-2011-4295
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
6.5
Description
The moodle_enrol_external:role_assign function in enrol/externallib.php in Moodle 2.0.x before 2.0.4 and 2.1.x before 2.1.1 does not have an authorization check, which allows remote authenticated users to gain privileges by making a role assignment.
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.
References
- http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d20f655d59cd486fd9b3a26ad353af13daafd1d3
- http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=182738
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/14/1
- http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d20f655d59cd486fd9b3a26ad353af13daafd1d3
- http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=182738
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/14/1
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.