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SCA: security update for moodle/moodle (GHSA-3hmr-948v-5qgq)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 432954

Description

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

 - In Moodle 2.x and 3.x, a CSRF attack is possible that allows attackers to change the "number of courses
 displayed in the course overview block" configuration setting. (CVE-2017-7491)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3hmr-948v-5qgq

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 432954

Version: Revision 1.2

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/11/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.2

Percentile: 0.01

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-7491

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/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: 5/17/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/15/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-7491

BID: 98463

cwe: CWE-352