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Moodle 2.7.x < 2.7.15 Remote Header Email Address Injection

medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 9520

Synopsis

The remote web server is hosting a web application that is vulnerable to a remote header injection attack vector.

Description

The remote web server hosts Moodle, an open-source course management system. Versions of Moodle 2.7.x prior to 2.7.15 are affected by a flaw that may allow an authenticated remote attacker to inject email addresses into the intended recipients of an email by changing their username to include another user's email address. This may result in other users potentially being saturated with emails. (CVE-2016-5013)

Solution

Upgrade to Moodle version 2.7.15 or later.

See Also

https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Moodle_2.7.15_release_notes

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 9520

Family: CGI

Published: 8/25/2016

Updated: 3/6/2019

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:moodle:moodle

Patch Publication Date: 7/12/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/19/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-5013

BID: 92040