CVE-2012-4403

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: 2012-09-19 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

theme/yui_combo.php in Moodle 2.3.x before 2.3.2 does not properly construct error responses for the drag-and-drop script, which allows remote attackers to obtain the installation path by sending a request for a nonexistent resource and then reading the response.

Affected products

Moodle: 2.3.0, 2.3.1

References

http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-35168
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=211560
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/17/1
http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-35168
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=211560
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/17/1

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