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SCA: security update for moodle/moodle (GHSA-w66h-c2vj-cm7f)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 433794

Description

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

 - Moodle 2.3.x before 2.3.1 uses only a client-side check for whether references are permitted in a file
 upload, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended alias (aka shortcut) restrictions via a
 client that omits this check. (CVE-2012-3387)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-w66h-c2vj-cm7f

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 433794

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: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-3387

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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: 7/17/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-3387

BID: 54481

cwe: CWE-287