CVE-2012-1168

Publication date 14 November 2019

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

Moodle before 2.2.2 has a password and web services issue where when the user profile is updated the user password is reset if not specified. Versions 2.2 to 2.2.1+, 2.1 to 2.1.4+, 2.0 to 2.0.7+ affected.

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
moodle	11.10 oneiric	Not affected
	11.04 natty	Not affected
	10.10 maverick	Not affected
	10.04 LTS lucid	Not affected
	8.04 LTS hardy	Ignored end of life

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
moodle	Upstream: http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-30878

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 8.2 · High

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	None
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	Low

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	8.2 · High
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L