CVE-2012-4407

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

lib/filelib.php in Moodle 2.1.x before 2.1.8, 2.2.x before 2.2.5, and 2.3.x before 2.3.2 does not properly check the publication state of blog files, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading a blog entry that references a non-public file.

Affected products

Moodle: 2.1.0, 2.1.1, 2.1.2, 2.1.3, 2.1.4, 2.1.5 (+9)

References

http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-34585
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=211557
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-34585
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=211557
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/17/1

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