Vulnerabilities > CVE-2013-2243 - Information Exposure vulnerability in Moodle
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
SINGLE Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
NONE Summary
mod/lesson/pagetypes/matching.php in Moodle through 2.2.11, 2.3.x before 2.3.8, 2.4.x before 2.4.5, and 2.5.x before 2.5.1 allows remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive answer information by reading the HTML source code of a document.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Subverting Environment Variable Values The attacker directly or indirectly modifies environment variables used by or controlling the target software. The attacker's goal is to cause the target software to deviate from its expected operation in a manner that benefits the attacker.
- Footprinting An attacker engages in probing and exploration activity to identify constituents and properties of the target. Footprinting is a general term to describe a variety of information gathering techniques, often used by attackers in preparation for some attack. It consists of using tools to learn as much as possible about the composition, configuration, and security mechanisms of the targeted application, system or network. Information that might be collected during a footprinting effort could include open ports, applications and their versions, network topology, and similar information. While footprinting is not intended to be damaging (although certain activities, such as network scans, can sometimes cause disruptions to vulnerable applications inadvertently) it may often pave the way for more damaging attacks.
- Exploiting Trust in Client (aka Make the Client Invisible) An attack of this type exploits a programs' vulnerabilities in client/server communication channel authentication and data integrity. It leverages the implicit trust a server places in the client, or more importantly, that which the server believes is the client. An attacker executes this type of attack by placing themselves in the communication channel between client and server such that communication directly to the server is possible where the server believes it is communicating only with a valid client. There are numerous variations of this type of attack.
- Browser Fingerprinting An attacker carefully crafts small snippets of Java Script to efficiently detect the type of browser the potential victim is using. Many web-based attacks need prior knowledge of the web browser including the version of browser to ensure successful exploitation of a vulnerability. Having this knowledge allows an attacker to target the victim with attacks that specifically exploit known or zero day weaknesses in the type and version of the browser used by the victim. Automating this process via Java Script as a part of the same delivery system used to exploit the browser is considered more efficient as the attacker can supply a browser fingerprinting method and integrate it with exploit code, all contained in Java Script and in response to the same web page request by the browser.
- Session Credential Falsification through Prediction This attack targets predictable session ID in order to gain privileges. The attacker can predict the session ID used during a transaction to perform spoofing and session hijacking.
Nessus
NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2013-12964.NASL description Latest upstream release for this branch. Correct unbundling of php-pear-HTML-Quickform. Fix for: MSA-13-0025: XSS vulnerability in YUI library MSA-13-0026: Personal information leak in IMS-LTI CVE-2013-2242 MSA-13-0027: Access issue in Chat module CVE-2013-2243 MSA-13-0028: Answer information revealed in Lesson activity CVE-2013-2244 MSA-13-0029: XSS risk in conditional activities CVE-2013-2245 MSA-13-0030: Information leak through RSS CVE-2013-2246 MSA-13-0031: Personal information leak in Feedback activity Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-03-17 modified 2013-07-23 plugin id 69007 published 2013-07-23 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2013-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/69007 title Fedora 19 : moodle-2.4.5-2.fc19 (2013-12964) NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2013-12950.NASL description Latest upstream release for this branch. Correct unbundling of php-pear-HTML-Quickform. Fix for: MSA-13-0025: XSS vulnerability in YUI library MSA-13-0026: Personal information leak in IMS-LTI CVE-2013-2242 MSA-13-0027: Access issue in Chat module CVE-2013-2243 MSA-13-0028: Answer information revealed in Lesson activity CVE-2013-2244 MSA-13-0029: XSS risk in conditional activities CVE-2013-2245 MSA-13-0030: Information leak through RSS CVE-2013-2246 MSA-13-0031: Personal information leak in Feedback activity Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-03-17 modified 2013-07-23 plugin id 69006 published 2013-07-23 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2013-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/69006 title Fedora 18 : moodle-2.3.8-2.fc18 (2013-12950) NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2013-13252.NASL description Latest upstream release for this branch. Correct unbundling of php-pear-HTML-Quickform. Fix for: MSA-13-0025: XSS vulnerability in YUI library MSA-13-0026: Personal information leak in IMS-LTI CVE-2013-2242 MSA-13-0027: Access issue in Chat module CVE-2013-2243 MSA-13-0028: Answer information revealed in Lesson activity CVE-2013-2244 MSA-13-0029: XSS risk in conditional activities CVE-2013-2245 MSA-13-0030: Information leak through RSS CVE-2013-2246 MSA-13-0031: Personal information leak in Feedback activity Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-03-17 modified 2013-07-31 plugin id 69150 published 2013-07-31 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2013-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/69150 title Fedora 17 : moodle-2.2.11-1.fc17 (2013-13252)