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VAR-201704-0119

Vulnerability from variot - Updated: 2025-04-20 23:29

The "restore teacher" feature in Moodle 3.0 through 3.0.3, 2.9 through 2.9.5, 2.8 through 2.8.11, 2.7 through 2.7.13, and earlier allows remote authenticated users to overwrite the course idnumber. Moodle is a free, open source e-learning software platform developed by Dr. Martin Dougiamas of Australia, also known as a course management system, a learning management system or a virtual learning environment. There is a design vulnerability in Moodle. Successfully exploiting this issue may allow an attacker to bypass certain security restrictions and perform unauthorized actions. Moodle versions 3.0 to 3.0.3, 2.9 to 2.9.5, 2.8 to 2.8.11, 2.7 to 2.7.13 and earlier unsupported versions are affected

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CVE-2016-3733 (GCVE-0-2016-3733)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-04-20 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 00:03

Summary

The "restore teacher" feature in Moodle 3.0 through 3.0.3, 2.9 through 2.9.5, 2.8 through 2.8.11, 2.7 through 2.7.13, and earlier allows remote authenticated users to overwrite the course idnumber.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

redhat CNA under the redhat root

CNA scorecard B 82/100 over 1085 records in the last 180 days details

References

4 references

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1335933	x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035902	vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK

Date Public

2016-05-17 00:00

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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base model, served locally by ML-Gateway. They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
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