Bug 2243444 (CVE-2023-5545, MSA-23-0037)

Summary:	CVE-2023-5545 moodle: Auto-populated H5P author name causes a potential information leak
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Robb Gatica <rgatica>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Product Security <prodsec-ir-bot>
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Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	ntait, security-response-team
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	moodle 4.2.3, moodle 4.1.6, moodle 4.0.11, moodle 3.11.17, moodle 3.9.24	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
Doc Text:	H5P metadata automatically populated the author with the user's username, which could be sensitive information.	Story Points:	---
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Bug Depends On:	2244908, 2244909
Bug Blocks:	2243346

Description Robb Gatica 2023-10-12 00:19:47 UTC

H5P metadata automatically populated the author with the user's username, which could be sensitive information. The flaw affects versions 4.2 to 4.2.2, 4.1 to 4.1.5, 4.0 to 4.0.10, 3.11 to 3.11.16, 3.9 to 3.9.23 and earlier unsupported versions.

Comment 2 Nick Tait 2023-10-18 18:50:18 UTC

https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=451586

Comment 3 Nick Tait 2023-10-18 20:46:09 UTC

Created moodle tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-7 [bug 2244908]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 2244909]