Directory traversal vulnerability in the min_get_slash_argument function in lib/configonlylib.php in Moodle through 2.5.9, 2.6.x before 2.6.8, 2.7.x before 2.7.5, and 2.8.x before 2.8.3 allows remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the file parameter, as demonstrated by reading PHP scripts.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - Directory traversal vulnerability in the min_get_slash_argument function in lib/configonlylib.php in
    Moodle through 2.5.9, 2.6.x before 2.6.8, 2.7.x before 2.7.5, and 2.8.x before 2.8.3 allows remote
    authenticated users to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the file parameter, as demonstrated by
    reading PHP scripts. (CVE-2015-1493)

Update to latest versions of the respective branches. f20 has been updated from 2.5.x to 2.6.x because 2.5.x is EOL.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
431747	SCA: security update for moodle/moodle (GHSA-gphj-63h8-r9vq)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	medium
431747	SCA: security update for moodle/moodle (GHSA-gphj-63h8-r9vq)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	medium
82939	Fedora 22 : moodle-2.8.5-1.fc22 (2015-4613)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
82610	Fedora 21 : moodle-2.7.7-1.fc21 (2015-4724)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
82601	Fedora 20 : moodle-2.6.10-1.fc20 (2015-4530)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2015-1493

medium

Tenable Plugins

medium

medium

medium

medium

medium