CVE-2012-0793 Information disclosure in n/a
Medium 5.0
Published
Updated
Check this codebase for CVE-2012-0793 and fix it if it is affected.
What it is: CVE-2012-0793 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Moodle Moodle, published on 17 Jul 2012. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-0793 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Affected product: Moodle Moodle. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.
Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.
Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2012-0793/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2012-0793/index.md)
Remote attackers can view profile images of arbitrary user accounts in Moodle, exposing private user data.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2012-0793?
CVE-2012-0793 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Moodle Moodle, published on 17 Jul 2012. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Moodle 1.9.x before 1.9.16, 2.0.x before 2.0.7, 2.1.x before 2.1.4, and 2.2.x before 2.2.1 allows remote attackers to view the profile images of arbitrary user accounts via unspecified vectors.
Weakness: CWE-264
Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-0793?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Moodle Moodle.
How do I fix CVE-2012-0793?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Is CVE-2012-0793 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-0793 in the wild and no public exploit code.
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- CVE-2006-4936 Moodle does not properly validate module instance id
- CVE-2004-2233 Unknown "front page vulnerability with Moodle servers" for Moodle before 1.3.2 has unknown impact and attack vectors.
- CVE-2004-2235 Cross-site scripting in n/a
- CVE-2004-2236 Other in n/a
Sources
Also known as GHSA-vw66-rcjg-qq7g.