National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-6103
Original release date:01/27/2013
Last revised:01/28/2013
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in user/messageselect.php in the messaging system in Moodle 2.2.x before 2.2.7, 2.3.x before 2.3.4, and 2.4.x before 2.4.1 allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of arbitrary users for requests that send course messages.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=220164
Type: Advisory
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20130121 Moodle security notifications public
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-36600
Technical Details
- Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) (CWE-352)