Bug 1927280 (CVE-2020-25629) - CVE-2020-25629 moodle: users with Log in as capability in a course context leads to privilege escalation
Summary: CVE-2020-25629 moodle: users with Log in as capability in a course context le...
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: CVE-2020-25629
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1927285 1927281
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2021-02-10 12:59 UTC by Dhananjay Arunesh
Modified: 2021-02-11 14:59 UTC (History)
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A flaw was found in Moodle where users with "Log in as" a capability in a course context (typically, course managers) may gain access to some site administration capabilities by "logging in as" a System manager. This issue affects versions 3.9 to 3.9.1, 3.8 to 3.8.4, 3.7 to 3.7.7, 3.5 to 3.5.13, and earlier unsupported versions. This is fixed in versions 3.9.2, 3.8.5, 3.7.8, and 3.5.14.
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Last Closed: 2021-02-10 16:09:46 UTC
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Description Dhananjay Arunesh 2021-02-10 12:59:19 UTC 
 A vulnerability was found in Moodle where users with "Log in as" capability in a course context (typically, course managers) may gain access to some site administration capabilities by "logging in as" a System manager. This affects 3.9 to 3.9.1, 3.8 to 3.8.4, 3.7 to 3.7.7, 3.5 to 3.5.13 and earlier unsupported versions. This is fixed in 3.9.2, 3.8.5, 3.7.8 and 3.5.14.
Comment 1 Dhananjay Arunesh 2021-02-10 13:00:02 UTC 
External References:

https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=410841
Comment 2 Dhananjay Arunesh 2021-02-10 13:01:09 UTC 
Created moodle tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1927281]
Comment 3 Dhananjay Arunesh 2021-02-10 13:05:48 UTC 
Created moodle tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-7 [bug 1927285]
Comment 4 Product Security DevOps Team 2021-02-10 16:09:46 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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