CVE-2019-14883

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
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: 2020-03-18 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-285

Description

A vulnerability was found in Moodle 3.6 before 3.6.7 and 3.7 before 3.7.3, where tokens used to fetch inline atachments in email notifications were not disabled when a user's account was no longer active. Note: to access files, a user would need to know the file path, and their token.

Affected products

Moodle: from 3.6.0 before 3.6.7; from 3.7.0 before 3.7.3 — fixed in 3.6.7, 3.7.3

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Moodle 3.6.7, 3.7.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-14883
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=393586#p1586750
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-14883
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=393586#p1586750

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