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SCA: security update for moodle/moodle (GHSA-m882-j7gq-v9p7)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 433740

Description

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

 - lib/ajax/getnavbranch.php in Moodle through 2.6.11, 2.7.x before 2.7.13, 2.8.x before 2.8.11, 2.9.x before
 2.9.5, and 3.0.x before 3.0.3, when the forcelogin feature is enabled, allows remote attackers to obtain
 sensitive category-detail information from the navigation branch by leveraging the guest role for an Ajax
 request. (CVE-2016-2158)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-m882-j7gq-v9p7

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 433740

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/19/2025

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

Temporal Score: 3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-2158

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/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: 3/21/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-2158

cwe: CWE-200