CVE-2024-43432

A flaw was found in moodle. The cURL wrapper in Moodle strips HTTPAUTH and USERPWD headers during emulated redirects, but retains other original request headers, so HTTP authorization header information could be unintentionally sent in requests to redirect URLs.

CVSS v3 5.3 MEDIUM

5.3^/10

CVSS v3 : MEDIUM

Vector :

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 1.4

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact LOW

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact NONE

Scope UNCHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2304260	Permissions Required
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=461200	Vendor Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

OR	cpe:2.3:a:moodle:moodle::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:moodle:moodle::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:moodle:moodle::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:moodle:moodle::::::::

History

01 May 2025, 16:08

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
CPE		cpe:2.3:a:moodle:moodle::::::::
First Time		Moodle Moodle moodle
References	~~() https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2304260 -~~	() https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2304260 - Permissions Required
References	~~() https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=461200 -~~	() https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=461200 - Vendor Advisory

Information

Published : 2024-11-11 13:15

Updated : 2025-05-01 16:08

NVD link : CVE-2024-43432

Mitre link : CVE-2024-43432

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2024-43432

JSON object : View

Products Affected

moodle

moodle

CWE

CWE-319

Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information

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