Moodle: authorization headers preserved between "emulated redirects" (moodle)

CVE-2024-43432
MEDIUM 5.3

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.33 % · percentile 26 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
fedora
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

A flaw was found in moodle. The cURL wrapper in Moodle strips HTTPAUTH and USERPWD headers during emulated redirects, but retains other original request headers, so HTTP authorization header information could be unintentionally sent in requests to redirect URLs.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-319 — Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.3CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:Nfedora
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.3CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:NNVD · patrick@puiterwijk.org (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.3CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:NNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Advisories

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
moodleaffected 0 < 4.1.12 ; affected 4.2 < 4.2.9 ; affected 4.3 < 4.3.6 ; affected 4.4 < 4.4.2

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD