Executive Summary



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Summary
Title Moodle vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-658-1 First vendor Publication 2008-10-23
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2008-10-23
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Cvss Base Score 4.3 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:

Ubuntu 7.10 Ubuntu 8.04 LTS

This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu.

The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 7.10:
moodle 1.8.2-1ubuntu2.1

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS:
moodle 1.8.2-1ubuntu4.1

In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes.

Details follow:

Lukasz Pilorz discovered that the HTML filtering used in Moodle was not strict enough. A remote attacker could send malicious requests to Moodle and execute arbitrary code as the web server user.

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-658-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-79 Failure to Preserve Web Page Structure ('Cross-site Scripting') (CWE/SANS Top 25)

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17657
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17657
Title: USN-658-1 -- moodle vulnerability
Description: Lukasz Pilorz discovered that the HTML filtering used in Moodle was not strict enough.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): USN-658-1
CVE-2008-1502
Version: 7
Platform(s): Ubuntu 7.10
Ubuntu 8.04
Product(s): moodle
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 9
Application 41

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2009-10-19 Name : Mandrake Security Advisory MDVSA-2009:265 (egroupware)
File : nvt/mdksa_2009_265.nasl
2009-09-02 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 1871-1 (wordpress)
File : nvt/deb_1871_1.nasl
2009-09-02 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 1871-2 (wordpress)
File : nvt/deb_1871_2.nasl
2009-06-05 Name : Ubuntu USN-698-1 (nagios)
File : nvt/ubuntu_698_1.nasl
2009-03-23 Name : Ubuntu Update for moodle vulnerability USN-658-1
File : nvt/gb_ubuntu_USN_658_1.nasl
2009-02-17 Name : Fedora Update for moodle FEDORA-2008-6226
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_6226_moodle_fc8.nasl
2008-12-29 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 1691-1 (moodle)
File : nvt/deb_1691_1.nasl
2008-12-29 Name : Ubuntu USN-698-2 (nagios3)
File : nvt/ubuntu_698_2.nasl
2008-12-29 Name : Ubuntu USN-699-1 (blender)
File : nvt/ubuntu_699_1.nasl
2008-09-24 Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200805-04 (egroupware)
File : nvt/glsa_200805_04.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
43677 KSES class.kses.inc.php _bad_protocol_once() Function HTML Filter Bypass

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2010-02-24 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-1871.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-04-23 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-658-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-12-22 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-1691.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-07-16 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_moodle-5439.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-07-10 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2008-6226.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-05-09 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-200805-04.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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