CVE-2020-25700 SQL Injection in moodle

What is CVE-2020-25700?

CVE-2020-25700 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 19 Nov 2020. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

In moodle, some database module web services allowed students to add entries within groups they did not belong to. Versions affected: 3.9 to 3.9.2, 3.8 to 3.8.5, 3.7 to 3.7.8, 3.5 to 3.5.14 and earlier unsupported versions. This is fixed in moodle 3.8.6, 3.7.9, 3.5.15, and 3.10.

Weakness: CWE-89

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-25700?

9 open source packages ship an affected version, including moodle/moodle and moodle. It affects 2 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Moodle Moodle.

How do I fix CVE-2020-25700?

Upgrade moodle/moodle to a fixed version for your release line: 3.5.15, 3.7.9, 3.8.6 or 3.9.3.

Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.

Is CVE-2020-25700 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-25700 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as BIT-moodle-2020-25700, GHSA-7h8v-2v8x-h264, UBUNTU-CVE-2020-25700.