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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2009-4298

Medium
5/10

Summary

The LAMS module (mod/lams) for Moodle 1.8 before 1.8.11 and 1.9 before 1.9.7 stores the (1) username, (2) firstname, and (3) lastname fields within the user table, which allows attackers to obtain user account information via unknown vectors.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • PARTIAL
  • NONE

CWE-200 - Information Exposure

An information exposure vulnerability is categorized as an information flow (IF) weakness, which can potentially allow unauthorized access to otherwise classified information in the application, such as confidential personal information (demographics, financials, health records, etc.), business secrets, and the application's internal environment.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published