CVE-2009-4298

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-12-16 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

The LAMS module (mod/lams) for Moodle 1.8 before 1.8.11 and 1.9 before 1.9.7 stores the (1) username, (2) firstname, and (3) lastname fields within the user table, which allows attackers to obtain user account information via unknown vectors.

Affected products

Moodle: 1.8.1, 1.8.2, 1.8.3, 1.8.4, 1.8.5, 1.8.7 (+9)

References

http://docs.moodle.org/en/Moodle_1.8.11_release_notes
http://docs.moodle.org/en/Moodle_1.9.7_release_notes
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=139102
http://secunia.com/advisories/37614
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37244
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3455
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg00704.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg00730.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg00751.html
http://docs.moodle.org/en/Moodle_1.8.11_release_notes
http://docs.moodle.org/en/Moodle_1.9.7_release_notes
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=139102

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