🛡️ CVE-2017-7532 — moodle

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-269 OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
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Description

Moodle Improper Privilege Management

In Moodle 3.x, course creators are able to change system default settings for courses.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity high, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2017-7532 is classified as CWE-269: Improper Privilege Management. Privileges are assigned, dropped or restored incorrectly, leaving an actor with more access than intended.

Affected software

CVE-2017-7532 is recorded against 1 package.

  • moodle/moodle (fixed in 3.1.7)

Timeline and source

Published on 13 May 2022 and last revised on 16 February 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
moodle.org (Web)
web.archive.org (Web)

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CWE CWE-269
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-05-13
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2024-02-16
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
moodle/moodle — 3.1.7

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