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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2018-10890

Severity Medium
Score 5.3/10

Summary

A flaw was found in moodle before 3.1.13, 3.2.x, 3.3.x before 3.3.7, 3.4.x before 3.4.4, 3.5.x before 3.5.1. It was possible for the core_course_get_categories web service to return hidden categories, which should be omitted when fetching course categories.

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

Advisory Timeline

  • Published