High severity · published Mar 26, 2019
CVE-2019-3849
A vulnerability was found in moodle before versions 3.6.3, 3.5.5 and 3.4.8
8.8
CVSS
1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A vulnerability was found in moodle before versions 3.6.3, 3.5.5 and 3.4.8. Users could assign themselves an escalated role within courses or content accessed via LTI, by modifying the request to the LTI publisher site.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.0% · higher than 63% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
MO
Moodle · Moodle
before 3.4.8; 3.5.0 before 3.5.5; 3.6.0 before 3.6.3 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-3849
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-3849
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3849
Patch
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=384012#p1547744
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