CVE-2019-14879 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting Moodle versions 3.7.x before 3.7.3, 3.6.x before 3.6.7, and 3.5.x before 3.5.9. The flaw allows for privilege escalation as the removal of a cohort role assignment did not properly revoke associated capabilities, potentially granting unauthorized access to sensitive information or actions. With a CVSS score of 5.4, this vulnerability has a low attack complexity and requires local privileges for exploitation, but does not necessitate user interaction. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 3.5.0, <= 3.5.8CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:moodle:moodle:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 3.6.0, <= 3.6.6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:moodle:moodle:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 3.7.0, <= 3.7.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:moodle:moodle:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
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