PR08-15: Several Webroot Disclosures on Moodle
Vulnerability found: 20/06/2008
Vendor informed: 25/06/2008
Vulnerability fixed: 16/07/2008
Advisory publicly released: 22/07/2008
Severity: Low
Description:
Moodle 1.6.5 is vulnerable to several webroot disclosures. No authentication is required to obtain the webroot paths.
Proof of concept:
Requested URL: https://moodle.target.ac.uk/blog/blogpage.php
Response: Fatal error: Class 'page_base' not found in /Volumes/<dir_name>/data/moodle/blog/blogpage.php on line 9
Requested URL: https://moodle.target.ac.uk/course/report/stats/report.php
Response: Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_courses() in /Volumes/<dir_name>/data/moodle/course/report/stats/report.php on line 3
Tested environment: Server: Apache/2.2.2 (Unix) PHP/5.2.1 mod_ssl/2.2.2 OpenSSL/0.9.7l
Moodle 1.6.5 + (2006050550)
Note: Moodle reveals its version within HTML source code. i.e.: <a title="moodle 1.6.5 + (2006050550)" href="http://moodle.org/">
Consequences:
Information about the target environment can be extracted.
Fix:
Disable display_errors in PHP configuration; A new warning for administrators has been added in versions 1.8.6 and 1.9.2. This issue has been tracked as MDL-15413.
References:
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=101403
http://www.procheckup.com/Vulnerabilities.php
Credits: Richard Brain of ProCheckUp Ltd. (www.procheckup.com) ProCheckUp would like to thank Petr Skoda and the rest of the Moodle team for their excellent response time and cooperation towards resolving this matter.
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