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CVE-2012-1168

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.2 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.3% 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-20

Description

Moodle before 2.2.2 has a password and web services issue where when the user profile is updated the user password is reset if not specified.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: 15, 16, 17
• Moodle: before 2.2.2 — fixed in 2.2.2
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 6.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Moodle 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-2012-1168
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-1168
• https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=198622
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-1168
• 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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