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Vulnerability details: VCID-dnya-ef8u-6bg1
Vulnerability ID VCID-dnya-ef8u-6bg1
Aliases CVE-2016-2154
GHSA-fmq9-58q4-xjw5
Summary Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor admin/tool/monitor/lib.php in Event Monitor in Moodle 2.8.x before 2.8.11, 2.9.x before 2.9.5, and 3.0.x before 3.0.3 does not consider the moodle/course:viewhiddencourses capability, which allows remote authenticated users to discover hidden course names by subscribing to a rule.
Status Published
Exploitability None
Weighted Severity None
Risk None
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (3)
CWE-1035 OWASP Top Ten 2017 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
CWE-937 OWASP Top Ten 2013 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
System Score Found at
There are no known severity scores.
Reference id Reference type URL
http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-51167
https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/214950de2a4149f0efeabf62b0978901c1c68015
https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/406a0efd3720d3b9214508b2e47b8f4401061312
https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/475362630ba4c5073a05b1c81caf3a7f3f373cd1
https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/4e5732e7fe0e9363618039d434cb5b774a8772b0
https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/89b97390d0bedd2567d61723f76caa222026d5fb
https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/ff7bacf32bbe148a7ab6db3b5fa69e106e54d6a4
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=330176
https://web.archive.org/web/20160424224349/http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035333
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/21/1
CVE-2016-2154 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-2154
GHSA-fmq9-58q4-xjw5 https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-fmq9-58q4-xjw5
No exploits are available.
There are no known vectors.

No EPSS data available for this vulnerability.

Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-06-02T04:42:50.384702+00:00 GitLab Importer Import https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/packagist/moodle/moodle/CVE-2016-2154.yml 38.6.0