CVE-2012-1155

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2019-11-14 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

Moodle has a database activity export permission issue where the export function of the database activity module exports all entries even those from groups the user does not belong to

Affected products

Debian Linux: 6.0
Fedoraproject Fedora: 15, 16, 17
Moodle: from 1.9 before 1.9.17; from 2.0 before 2.0.8; from 2.1 before 2.1.5; from 2.2 before 2.2.2 — fixed in 1.9.17, 2.0.8, 2.1.5, 2.2.2
Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 6.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Moodle 1.9.17, 2.0.8, 2.1.5, 2.2.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/077635.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/078209.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/078210.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/080712.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/081047.html
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-1155
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-1155
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=198621
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-1155
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/077635.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/078209.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/078210.html

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