CVE-2021-43559 Moodle contains CSRF vulnerability

What is CVE-2021-43559?

CVE-2021-43559 is a high-severity vulnerability in Fedoraproject Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux, published on 22 Nov 2021. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

A flaw was found in Moodle in versions 3.11 to 3.11.3, 3.10 to 3.10.7, 3.9 to 3.9.10 and earlier unsupported versions. The "delete related badge" functionality did not include the necessary token check to prevent a CSRF risk.

Weakness: CWE-352

Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-43559?

7 open source packages ship an affected version, including moodle/moodle and moodle. It affects 3 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux, Fedoraproject Fedora, Moodle Moodle.

How do I fix CVE-2021-43559?

Upgrade moodle/moodle to a fixed version for your release line: 3.10.8, 3.11.4 or 3.9.11.

Is CVE-2021-43559 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-43559 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Fedoraproject Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux

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• CVE-2022-4170 Code injection in rxvt-unicode Critical 9.8
• CVE-2022-40315 Moodle Minor SQL injection risk in admin user browsing Critical 9.8
• CVE-2022-45152 Moodle blind Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in LTI provider library Critical 9.1
• CVE-2022-24882 Server side NTLM does not properly check parameters in FreeRDP Critical 9.1

All Fedoraproject Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as BIT-moodle-2021-43559, GHSA-3jrj-x6cj-97cp, UBUNTU-CVE-2021-43559.