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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2017-15110

Medium
4.3/10

Summary

In Moodle before 3.4.0-rc3, students can find out email addresses of other students in the same course. Using search on the Participants page, students could search email addresses of all participants regardless of email visibility. This allows enumerating and guessing emails of other students.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • LOW
  • 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