Medium severity · published Mar 26, 2019
CVE-2019-3852
A vulnerability was found in moodle before version 3.6.3
4.3
CVSS
1.1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A vulnerability was found in moodle before version 3.6.3. The get_with_capability_join and get_users_by_capability functions were not taking context freezing into account when checking user capabilities
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.1% · higher than 64% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
MO
Moodle · Moodle
before 3.6.3 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-3852
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-3852
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3852
Patch
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=384015#p1547748
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