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CVE-2016-3733

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.0)
• 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: 2017-04-20 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-284

Description

The "restore teacher" feature in Moodle 3.0 through 3.0.3, 2.9 through 2.9.5, 2.8 through 2.8.11, 2.7 through 2.7.13, and earlier allows remote authenticated users to overwrite the course idnumber.

Affected products

• Moodle: 2.7.0, 2.7.0-beta, 2.7.0-rc1, 2.7.0-rc2, 2.7.1, 2.7.2 (+38)

References

• http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-51369
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/17/4
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035902
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1335933
• http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-51369
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/17/4
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035902
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1335933

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