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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.2

CVE-2019-14879 json

Moodle does not revoke role capabilities correctly

published 2020-01-07 6 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-g9m2-c2x5-fr2v , EUVD-2022-3932

cvss
4.2
version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.7%
EPSS 0.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 53%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A vulnerability was found in Moodle versions 3.7.x before 3.7.3, 3.6.x before 3.6.7 and 3.5.x before 3.5.9. When a cohort role assignment was removed, the associated capabilities were not being revoked (where applicable).

Patch / fix

  • packagist moodle/moodle 3.5.9, 3.6.7, 3.7.3

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2019-14879 updated cvss 4.2

moodle: Assigned Role in Cohort did not un-assign on removal

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.71% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 53% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • bugzilla.redhat.com https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-14879 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.0 4.2 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD 3.1 5.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD 2.0 5.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N
GitHub 3.1 5.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
packagist moodle/moodle
>=3.7.0, <3.7.3
>=3.6.0, <3.6.7
>=3.5.0, <3.5.9
3.7.3
3.6.7
3.5.9

Affected products

  • [UNKNOWN] moodle

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls
  • CWE-273 Improper Check for Dropped Privileges

References

Sources

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