Skip to content
Fencer Intel
medium 6.5

CVE-2012-5471 json

Moodle Allows Unauthenticated Dropbox Access

published 2012-11-21 13 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also GHSA-mpjx-8phj-5m34 , EUVD-2022-4603

cvss
6.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.3%
EPSS 1.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 69%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The Dropbox Repository File Picker in Moodle 2.1.x before 2.1.9, 2.2.x before 2.2.6, and 2.3.x before 2.3.3 allows remote authenticated users to access the Dropbox of a different user by leveraging an unattended workstation after a logout.

Patch / fix

  • packagist moodle/moodle 2.1.9, 2.2.6, 2.3.3

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-2012-5471 updated cvss 6.8

moodle: Various security issues fixed in upstream 2.3.3, 2.2.6 and 2.1.9 versions (MSA-12-0057, MSA-12-0058, MSA-12-0059, MSA-12-0060, MSA-12-0061, MSA-12-0062, MSA-12-0063)

  • 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

1.26% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 69% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 6.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
packagist moodle/moodle
>=2.3, <2.3.3
>=2.2, <2.2.6
>=2.1, <2.1.9
2.3.3
2.2.6
2.1.9

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls
  • CWE-287 Improper Authentication

References

Sources

Fencer Intel 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.