CVE-2016-7038
Moodle Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password
7.3
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.24%
Description
In Moodle 2.x and 3.x, web service tokens are not invalidated when the user password is changed or forced to be changed.
How to fix CVE-2016-7038
To remediate CVE-2016-7038, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Packagist/moodle/moodle—upgrade to 2.7.16 or later
Is CVE-2016-7038 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.2%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- >= 2.7, < 2.7.16
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.3 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L |