CVE-2011-4295

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-07-16 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The moodle_enrol_external:role_assign function in enrol/externallib.php in Moodle 2.0.x before 2.0.4 and 2.1.x before 2.1.1 does not have an authorization check, which allows remote authenticated users to gain privileges by making a role assignment.

Affected products

Moodle: 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 2.1.0

References

http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d20f655d59cd486fd9b3a26ad353af13daafd1d3
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=182738
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/14/1
http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d20f655d59cd486fd9b3a26ad353af13daafd1d3
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=182738
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/14/1

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