Bug 2292949

Summary:	CVE-2024-38275 moodle: HTTP authorization header is preserved between "emulated redirects" [fedora-all]
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Robb Gatica <rgatica>
Component:	moodle	Assignee:	Gwyn Ciesla <gwync>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	40	CC:	gwync, igor.raits, sergio
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Bug Blocks:	2292043

Description Robb Gatica 2024-06-18 18:19:01 UTC

More information about this security flaw is available in the following bug:

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2292043

Disclaimer: Community trackers are created by Red Hat Product Security team on a best effort basis. Package maintainers are required to ascertain if the flaw indeed affects their package, before starting the update process.

Comment 1 Robb Gatica 2024-06-18 18:19:03 UTC

Use the following template to for the 'fedpkg update' request to submit an
update for this issue as it contains the top-level parent bug(s) as well as
this tracking bug.  This will ensure that all associated bugs get updated
when new packages are pushed to stable.

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# bugfix, security, enhancement, newpackage (required)
type=security

# low, medium, high, urgent (required)
severity=low

# testing, stable
request=testing

# Bug numbers: 1234,9876
bugs=2292043,2292949

# Description of your update
notes=Security fix for [PUT CVEs HERE]

# Enable request automation based on the stable/unstable karma thresholds
autokarma=True
stable_karma=3
unstable_karma=-3

# Automatically close bugs when this marked as stable
close_bugs=True

# Suggest that users restart after update
suggest_reboot=False

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Additionally, you may opt to use the bodhi web interface to submit updates:

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/new

Comment 2 Sergio Basto 2025-03-05 01:54:09 UTC

The cURL wrapper in Moodle retained the original request headers when following redirects, so HTTP authorization header information could be unintentionally sent in requests to redirect URLs.

Severity/Risk: 	Minor
Versions affected: 	4.4, 4.3 to 4.3.4, 4.2 to 4.2.7, 4.1 to 4.1.10 and earlier unsupported versions
Versions fixed: 	4.4.1, 4.3.5, 4.2.8 and 4.1.11
Reported by: 	cameron1729
CVE identifier: 	CVE-2024-38275
Changes (master): 	http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-81774
Tracker issue: 	MDL-81774 HTTP authorization header is preserved between "emulated redirects"

current versions: moodle-4.5.2-1.fc42, moodle-4.4.6-1.fc41 and moodle-4.3.10-1.fc40