What is CVE-2024-43432?

CVE-2024-43432 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Moodle, classified under Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2024-11-11.

How severe is CVE-2024-43432?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Moodle

CVE-2024-43432

A flaw was found in moodle. The cURL wrapper in Moodle strips HTTPAUTH and USERPWD headers during emulated redirects, but retains other original request headers, so HTTP authorization header information could be unintentionally sent in requests to redirect URLs.

Published 2024-11-11 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.003 (23.9th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 24th percentile — 23.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.003 · newest: 0.003 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Moodle

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-319 — Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information

References

bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (Permissions Required, issue-tracking)
moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-43432?: CVE-2024-43432 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Moodle, classified under Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2024-11-11.
How severe is CVE-2024-43432?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.