Bug 1692936 (CVE-2019-3852) - CVE-2019-3852 moodle: get_with_capability_join/get_users_by_capability not aware of context freezing
Summary: CVE-2019-3852 moodle: get_with_capability_join/get_users_by_capability not aw...
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: CVE-2019-3852
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1692937 1692938
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2019-03-26 17:14 UTC by Laura Pardo
Modified: 2021-02-16 22:11 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version: moodle 3.6.3
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Last Closed: 2019-06-10 10:52:10 UTC
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Description Laura Pardo 2019-03-26 17:14:17 UTC 
A vulnerability was found in moodle before version 3.6.3. The get_with_capability_join and get_users_by_capability functions were not taking context freezing into account when checking user capabilities

Upstream Bug:
https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-64410

Upstream Patch:
http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-64410
Comment 1 Laura Pardo 2019-03-26 17:14:20 UTC 
Acknowledgments:

Name: Andrew Nicols
Comment 2 Laura Pardo 2019-03-26 17:14:23 UTC 
External References:

https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=384015#p1547748
Comment 3 Laura Pardo 2019-03-26 17:14:57 UTC 
Created moodle tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1692938]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1692937]
Comment 4 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-10 10:52:10 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.
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