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CVE-2012-6099
medium
Description
The moodle1 backup converter in backup/converter/moodle1/lib.php in Moodle 2.1.x before 2.1.10, 2.2.x before 2.2.7, 2.3.x before 2.3.4, and 2.4.x before 2.4.1 does not properly validate pathnames, which allows remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files by leveraging the backup-restoration feature.
References
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-cr78-rphw-w73p
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=220160
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/01/21/1
http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-36977