Skip to content
Heist/ feed
Back to feed
Low

Moodle: students can view other users in "only see own membership" groups

Type: advisorySources: OSV

Students in "Only see own membership" groups could see other students in the group, which should be hidden.

Products
Not specified
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
Not specified
CVEs
CVE-2023-5542
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
3 Nov 2026, 15:34 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

Moodle: students can view other users in "only see own membership" groups

core-osv · Original source

Published 9 Nov 2023, 19:27 UTC

Students in "Only see own membership" groups could see other students in the group, which should be hidden.

osv:CVE-2023-5542
Complete source record
{
  "id": "a5465ea387ea35cba87cf590f3c3b1ebb0d3e1f37fe0fa6b16495abd2616703d",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-5542",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "Moodle: students can view other users in \"only see own membership\" groups",
    "summary": "Students in \"Only see own membership\" groups could see other students in the group, which should be hidden.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2023-5542",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "low",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2023-5542",
      "aliases": [
        "BIT-moodle-2023-5542",
        "CVE-2023-5542",
        "GHSA-8mm2-m2gp-c6x2"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/moodle/moodle",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "91e6642f16492fd8a6443e1581e1b14592f74e44"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "91e6642f16492fd8a6443e1581e1b14592f74e44"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:moodle:moodle:4.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "4.2.2"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "4.2.2"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "4.2.2",
            "v4.2.2"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-5542.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:29.940294072Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://git.moodle.org",
        "https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=451583",
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/5xxx/CVE-2023-5542.json",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5542",
        "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2243441"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "cwe_ids": [
          "CWE-284"
        ],
        "cna_assigner": "fedora",
        "unresolved_ranges": [
          {
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "introduced": "4.2.2"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "4.2.2"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "AFFECTED_FIELD",
                "strategy": "StandaloneSingleVersion"
              }
            ]
          }
        ],
        "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/5xxx/CVE-2023-5542.json"
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2023-5542",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 496864,
  "published_at": "2023-11-09T19:27:38.733+00:00"
}