CVE-2016-5013
In Moodle 2.x and 3.x, text injection can occur in email headers, potentially leading to outbound spam.
02 Description
In Moodle 2.x and 3.x, text injection can occur in email headers, potentially leading to outbound spam.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 1.05% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 64.1% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 5.4 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2017-01-20 08:39Z9 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 00:46Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2016-05-24
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-74Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection')Class
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- b408e1dbf0e6f0e9e657cf38fa662a2d1c77e4dc2f407ce137a8911b7aae8134
05 Affected products
06 References
- moodle.orghttps://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=336698
- www.securityfocus.com92040http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92040
07 Fixed in
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS
- moodle No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS
- moodle No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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