Vulnerabilities > CVE-2016-7038 - Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password vulnerability in Moodle

047910
CVSS 7.3 - HIGH
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
LOW
Integrity impact
LOW
Availability impact
LOW
network
low complexity
moodle
CWE-640
nessus
NVD
Published: 2017-01-20
Updated: 2024-11-21

Summary

In Moodle 2.x and 3.x, web service tokens are not invalidated when the user password is changed or forced to be changed.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Moodle
221

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • Password Recovery Exploitation
    An attacker may take advantage of the application feature to help users recover their forgotten passwords in order to gain access into the system with the same privileges as the original user. Generally password recovery schemes tend to be weak and insecure. Most of them use only one security question . For instance, mother's maiden name tends to be a fairly popular one. Unfortunately in many cases this information is not very hard to find, especially if the attacker knows the legitimate user. These generic security questions are also re-used across many applications, thus making them even more insecure. An attacker could for instance overhear a coworker talking to a bank representative at the work place and supplying their mother's maiden name for verification purposes. An attacker can then try to log in into one of the victim's accounts, click on "forgot password" and there is a good chance that the security question there will be to provide mother's maiden name. A weak password recovery scheme totally undermines the effectiveness of a strong password scheme.

Nessus

NASL familyFreeBSD Local Security Checks
NASL idFREEBSD_PKG_AB02F981AB9E11E6AE1B002590263BF5.NASL
descriptionMarina Glancy reports : - MSA-16-0022: Web service tokens should be invalidated when the user password is changed or forced to be changed.
last seen2020-06-01
modified2020-06-02
plugin id94903
published2016-11-16
reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2016-2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/94903
titleFreeBSD : moodle -- multiple vulnerabilities (ab02f981-ab9e-11e6-ae1b-002590263bf5)
code
#
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#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
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#
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include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(94903);
  script_version("2.3");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2018/11/10 11:49:45");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2016-7038");

  script_name(english:"FreeBSD : moodle -- multiple vulnerabilities (ab02f981-ab9e-11e6-ae1b-002590263bf5)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks for updated packages in pkg_info output");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:
"The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related
updates."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"Marina Glancy reports :

- MSA-16-0022: Web service tokens should be invalidated when the user
password is changed or forced to be changed."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://moodle.org/security/"
  );
  # https://vuxml.freebsd.org/freebsd/ab02f981-ab9e-11e6-ae1b-002590263bf5.html
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?731c085c"
  );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected packages.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:moodle29");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:moodle30");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:moodle31");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2016/09/12");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2016/11/16");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2016/11/16");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
  script_family(english:"FreeBSD Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/FreeBSD/release", "Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("freebsd_package.inc");


if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/FreeBSD/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "FreeBSD");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);


flag = 0;

if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"moodle29<2.9.8")) flag++;
if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"moodle30<3.0.6")) flag++;
if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"moodle31<3.1.2")) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:pkg_report_get());
  else security_warning(0);
  exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");

References