🛡️ CVE-2021-20283 — moodle

🟡 CVSS 5.0 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
5.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Missing permission check in Moodle

The web service responsible for fetching other users' enrolled courses did not validate that the requesting user had permission to view that information in each course in moodle before 3.10.2, 3.9.5, 3.8.8, 3.5.17.

Affected software

CVE-2021-20283 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • moodle
  • moodle/moodle (fixed in 3.5.17)

Timeline and source

Published on 6 March 2024 and last revised on 3 April 2025. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

bugzilla.redhat.com (Web)
lists.fedoraproject.org (Web)
lists.fedoraproject.org (Web)
moodle.org (Web)
nvd.nist.gov (Web)

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.0
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2024-03-06
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2025-04-03
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
moodle
moodle/moodle 3.5.17

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