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WEB APPLICATION VULNERABILITIES Standard & Premium

Moodle Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor Vulnerability (CVE-2009-4298)

Description

The LAMS module (mod/lams) for Moodle 1.8 before 1.8.11 and 1.9 before 1.9.7 stores the (1) username, (2) firstname, and (3) lastname fields within the user table, which allows attackers to obtain user account information via unknown vectors.

Remediation

References

CVE-2009-4298

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Severity

Medium

Classification

CVE-2009-4298 CWE-200

Tags

Missing Update Known Vulnerabilities

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