CVE-2012-0794

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-07-17 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-255

Description

The rc4encrypt function in lib/moodlelib.php in Moodle 1.9.x before 1.9.16, 2.0.x before 2.0.7, 2.1.x before 2.1.4, and 2.2.x before 2.2.1 uses a hardcoded password of nfgjeingjk, which makes it easier for remote attackers to defeat cryptographic protection mechanisms by reading this script's source code within the open-source software distribution.

Affected products

Moodle: 1.9.1, 1.9.2, 1.9.3, 1.9.4, 1.9.5, 1.9.6 (+21)

References

http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=98456628a24bba25d336860d38a45b5a4e3895da
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=194013
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2421
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=783532
http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=98456628a24bba25d336860d38a45b5a4e3895da
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=194013
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2421
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=783532

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