CVE-2012-2356
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
4.0
Description
Moodle Authentication Bypass in Question-Bank
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 | >=2.1,<2.1.6 | 2.1.6 |
| Packagist | moodle/moodle | >=2.2,<2.2.3 | 2.2.3 |
References
- http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-32239
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/23/2
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-2356
- https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/0f83dd10a1d013e77906c7be4560126bb14c6b5c
- https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/29e247e44e983f230f248192ffac8e7b7abe37fd
- https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/51c5e6057c67687f5d872f8a228cfea275abf576
- https://github.com/moodle/moodle
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.