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SCA: security update for moodle/moodle (GHSA-pgm5-cr62-prxq)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 421792

Description

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

 - The vulnerability was found in Moodle, occurs due to input validation error when importing lesson
 questions. This insufficient path checks results in arbitrary file read risk. This vulnerability allows a
 remote attacker to perform directory traversal attacks. The capability to access this feature is only
 available to teachers, managers and admins by default. (CVE-2022-35650)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-pgm5-cr62-prxq

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 421792

Version: Revision 1.7

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/28/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.93

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-35650

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/26/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/25/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-35650

cwe: CWE-20