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title: "CVE-2011-4300\n    | Ubuntu"
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# CVE-2011-4300

Publication date 11 July 2012

Last updated 24 July 2024

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Ubuntu priority

**Medium**

[Why this priority?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#priority )

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## Description

The file\_browser component in Moodle 2.0.x before 2.0.5 and 2.1.x before
2.1.2 does not properly restrict access to category and course data, which
allows remote attackers to obtain potentially sensitive information via a
request for a file.

[Read the notes from the security team](https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2011-4300?format=md#notes)

## Status

Show unmaintained releases

| Package | Ubuntu Release | Status |
| --- | --- | --- |
| moodle | 11.10 oneiric | Not affected |
| 11.04 natty | Not affected |
| 10.10 maverick | Not affected |
| 10.04 LTS lucid | Not affected |
| 8.04 LTS hardy | Ignored end of life |

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* [How can I get the fixes?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#security)
* [What do statuses mean?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#statuses)

## Notes

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### [jdstrand](https://launchpad.net/~jdstrand)

moodle 2.0 only

## References

* [MITRE](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-4300)
* [NVD](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-4300)
* [Launchpad](https://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2011-4300)
* [Debian](https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-4300)

### Other references

* <https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2011-4300>