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Moodle: Course enrolments allowed privilege escalation from teacher role into manager role (CVE-2020-14321)

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Moodle: Course enrolments allowed privilege escalation from teacher role into manager role (CVE-2020-14321)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
08/16/2022
Created
08/29/2022
Added
08/19/2022
Modified
05/17/2023

Description

In Moodle before 3.9.1, 3.8.4, 3.7.7 and 3.5.13, teachers of a course were able to assign themselves the manager role within that course.

Solution(s)

  • moodle-upgrade-3_5_13
  • moodle-upgrade-3_7_7
  • moodle-upgrade-3_8_4

References

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