CVE-2012-2359

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.1% 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-264

Description

admin/roles/override.php in Moodle 2.0.x before 2.0.9, 2.1.x before 2.1.6, and 2.2.x before 2.2.3 allows remote authenticated users to gain privileges by leveraging the teacher role and modifying their own capabilities, as demonstrated by obtaining the backup:userinfo capability.

Affected products

Moodle: 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 2.0.4, 2.0.5 (+12)

References

http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=0f75e1e6272db0303abc8e27362e5c3a1344b82f
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/23/2
http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=0f75e1e6272db0303abc8e27362e5c3a1344b82f
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/23/2

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