CVE-2009-4304 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2009-4304 at MITRE

Description

Moodle 1.8 before 1.8.11 and 1.9 before 1.9.7 does not use a random password salt in config.php, which makes it easier for attackers to conduct brute-force password guessing attacks.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	7.5
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Partial
Integrity Impact	Partial
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 564364 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SR:2010:004, published Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 07:06:50 2013
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 18:16:03 2025