Bug 1941729 (CVE-2019-14828)

Summary:	CVE-2019-14828 moodle: course creation did not check the creator's role assignment capability before automatically assigning them as a teacher in the course
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz <gsuckevi>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
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Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	gwync, igor.raits
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Doc Text:	A vulnerability was found in Moodle where users with the capability to create courses were assigned as a teacher in those courses, regardless of whether they had the capability to be automatically assigned that role.	Story Points:	---
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Bug Depends On:	1941744
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Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2021-03-22 16:37:28 UTC

A vulnerability was found in Moodle affecting 3.7 to 3.7.1, 3.6 to 3.6.5, 3.5 to 3.5.7 and earlier unsupported versions, where users with the capability to create courses were assigned as a teacher in those courses, regardless of whether they had the capability to be automatically assigned that role.

Reference:
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=391031

Comment 1 Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2021-03-22 16:51:30 UTC

Created moodle tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1941744]