Moodle: Group Visibility Flaw Exposes Peer Info in 'Only see own membership' Mode
CVE-2023-5542 Published on November 9, 2023
Moodle: students can view other users in "only see own membership" groups
Students in "Only see own membership" groups could see other students in the group, which should be hidden.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2023-5542 is exploitable with local system access, requires user interaction. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have a small impact on confidentiality, a small impact on integrity and availability.
Timeline
Reported to Red Hat.
Made public. 6 days later.
Weakness Type
What is an Authorization Vulnerability?
The software does not restrict or incorrectly restricts access to a resource from an unauthorized actor.
CVE-2023-5542 has been classified to as an Authorization vulnerability or weakness.
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Exploit Probability
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