mod/glossary/showentry.php in the Glossary module for Moodle 1.8 before 1.8.11 and 1.9 before 1.9.7 does not properly perform access…

Description

mod/glossary/showentry.php in the Glossary module for Moodle 1.8 before 1.8.11 and 1.9 before 1.9.7 does not properly perform access control, which allows attackers to read unauthorized Glossary entries via unknown vectors.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

2.1% · top 18% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-264 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-264 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (9)

• http://docs.moodle.org/en/Moodle_1.9.7_release_notes (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• http://docs.moodle.org/en/Moodle_1.8.11_release_notes (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• ADV-2009-3455 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• 37614 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• FEDORA-2009-13065 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
• FEDORA-2009-13040 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
• http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=139103 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• FEDORA-2009-13080 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
• 37244 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2009-4299](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2009-4299.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2009-4299)

Record last updated 16 Sept 2024, 16:18 UTC.