Bug 1941729 (CVE-2019-14828) - 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
Summary: CVE-2019-14828 moodle: course creation did not check the creator's role assig...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2019-14828
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1941744
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2021-03-22 16:37 UTC by Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz
Modified: 2021-10-28 05:29 UTC (History)
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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.
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Last Closed: 2021-10-28 05:29:27 UTC
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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]
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