CVE-2019-3852

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.0)
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: 2019-03-26 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

A vulnerability was found in moodle before version 3.6.3. The get_with_capability_join and get_users_by_capability functions were not taking context freezing into account when checking user capabilities

Affected products

Moodle: before 3.6.3 — fixed in 3.6.3

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Moodle 3.6.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3852
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=384015#p1547748
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3852
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=384015#p1547748

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