Bug 1939046 (CVE-2021-20282)

Summary: CVE-2021-20282 moodle: Bypass email verification secret when confirming account registration
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Pedro Sampaio <psampaio>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM QA Contact:
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Priority: low    
Version: unspecifiedCC: gwync, igor.raits, sergio
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: moodle 3.10.2, moodle 3.9.5, moodle 3.8.8, moodle 3.5.17 Doc Type: ---
Doc Text:
When creating a user account, it was possible to verify the account without having access to the verification email link/secret.
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Last Closed: 2021-03-15 17:26:02 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Depends On: 1939048, 1939049    
Bug Blocks: 1939056    

Description Pedro Sampaio 2021-03-15 13:56:53 UTC
When creating a user account, it was possible to verify the account without having access to the verification email link/secret.

References:

https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=419653

Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2021-03-15 13:57:01 UTC
External References:

https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=419653

Comment 2 Pedro Sampaio 2021-03-15 13:57:30 UTC
Created moodle tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1939048]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1939049]

Comment 3 Product Security DevOps Team 2021-03-15 17:26:02 UTC
This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.