CVE-2021-20283
mediumpriority · track · 17OT risk · elevatedEPSS 0.011 · 66 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
The web service responsible for fetching other users' enrolled courses did not validate that the requesting user had permission to view that information in each course in moodle before 3.10.2, 3.9.5, 3.8.8, 3.5.17.
cvss
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode
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affected products (15)
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advisories (2)
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- GHSA-2m72-m5cw-3g9hMissing permission check in Moodle2022-05-24ghsa · osvUS
The web service responsible for fetching other users' enrolled courses did not validate that the requesting user had permission to view that information in each course in moodle before 3.10.2, 3.9.5, 3.8.8, 3.5.17.
- BIT-moodle-2021-202832024-03-06vendor · osvUS
The web service responsible for fetching other users' enrolled courses did not validate that the requesting user had permission to view that information in each course in moodle before 3.10.2, 3.9.5, 3.8.8, 3.5.17.
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references (15)
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- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1939051cnnvd
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AFSNJ7XHVTC52RSRX2GBQFF3VEEAY2MS/cnnvd
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UFH5DDMU5TZ3JT4Q52WMRAHACA5MHIMT/cnnvd
- https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=419654cnnvd
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-20283cnnvd
- https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/Moodle-five-vulnerabilities-34911cnnvd
- https://www.auscert.org.au/bulletins/ESB-2021.0909cnnvd
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1939051enisa_euvd
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