CVE-2013-2079

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-05-25 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

mod/assign/locallib.php in the assignment module in Moodle 2.3.x before 2.3.7 and 2.4.x before 2.4.4 does not consider capability requirements during the processing of ZIP assignment-archive download (aka downloadall) requests, which allows remote authenticated users to read other users' assignments by leveraging the student role.

Affected products

Moodle: 2.3.0, 2.3.1, 2.3.2, 2.3.3, 2.3.4, 2.3.5 (+5)

References

http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-38443
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/106965.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/106988.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/107026.html
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/21/1
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=228930
http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-38443
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/106965.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/106988.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/107026.html
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/21/1
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=228930

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