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Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

CVE-2019-3849

Severity High
Score 8.8/10

Summary

A vulnerability was found in moodle from 3.2.x through 3.4.8, 3.5.x before 3.5.5, 3.6.x before 3.6.3. Users could assign themselves an escalated role within courses or content accessed via LTI, by modifying the request to the LTI publisher site.

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

CWE-264 - Permissions Privileges and Access Controls

CWE 264 (permissions, privileges, and access controls) is not a weakness in and of itself, rather it is a category of weaknesses related to the management of permissions, privileges, and other security features used to perform access control. If not addressed, the weaknesses in this category allow attackers to gain privileges for an unintended sphere of control, access sensitive information, and execute arbitrary commands.

Advisory Timeline

  • Published