CVE-2012-2357

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 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: 2012-07-21 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

The Multi-Authentication feature in the Central Authentication Service (CAS) functionality in auth/cas/cas_form.html in Moodle 2.1.x before 2.1.6 and 2.2.x before 2.2.3 does not use HTTPS, which allows remote attackers to obtain credentials by sniffing the network.

Affected products

Moodle: 2.1.0, 2.1.1, 2.1.2, 2.1.3, 2.1.4, 2.1.5 (+3)

References

http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=895e76ea51c462c18ad66e0761ad76cd26a63ecf
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/23/2
http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=895e76ea51c462c18ad66e0761ad76cd26a63ecf
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/23/2

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