🛡️ CVE-2024-38275 on Ubuntu — moodle

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

The cURL wrapper in Moodle retained the original request headers when following redirects, so HTTP authorization header information could be unintentionally sent in requests to redirect URLs.

Distribution advisory

This page covers CVE-2024-38275 as tracked by Ubuntu, for the package moodle. No fixed version has been recorded for this distribution yet.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

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

Weakness class

UBUNTU-CVE-2024-38275 is classified as CWE-226: Sensitive Information in Resource Not Removed Before Reuse. The product releases a resource such as memory or a file so that it can be made available for reuse, but it does not clear or "zeroize" the information contained in the resource before the product performs a critical state transition or makes the…

Affected software

UBUNTU-CVE-2024-38275 is recorded against 1 package.

  • moodle

Timeline and source

Published on 18 June 2024 and last revised on 24 October 2025. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

ubuntu.com (Report)
www.cve.org (Report)
moodle.org (Report)

CVE-2024-38275 on other distributions

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Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2024-06-18
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2025-10-24
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
moodle — —

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