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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.0

CVE-2009-4301 json

mnet/lib.php in Moodle 1.8 before 1.8.11 and 1.9 before 1.9.7, when MNET services are enabled, does not properly check permissions, which a…

published 2009-12-16 16 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2009-4269

cvss
6.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.4%
EPSS 1.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 72%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

mnet/lib.php in Moodle 1.8 before 1.8.11 and 1.9 before 1.9.7, when MNET services are enabled, does not properly check permissions, which allows remote authenticated servers to execute arbitrary MNET functions.

Patch / fix

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-2009-4301 updated

Moodle: Multiple security fixes in 1.9.7 and 1.8.11 upstream releases

  • 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

1.38% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 72% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 6.0 AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.