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SCA: security update for moodle/moodle (GHSA-454r-4cjv-vc9h)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 432275

Description

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

 - The enrol_meta_sync function in enrol/meta/locallib.php in Moodle through 2.6.11, 2.7.x before 2.7.10,
 2.8.x before 2.8.8, and 2.9.x before 2.9.2 allows remote authenticated users to obtain manager privileges
 in opportunistic circumstances by leveraging incorrect role processing during a long-running sync script.
 (CVE-2015-5266)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-454r-4cjv-vc9h

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 432275

Version: Revision 1.2

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/8/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.04

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-5266

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/13/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/21/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-5266

BID: 76886