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SCA: security update for moodle/moodle (GHSA-2phx-w35g-x9vm)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 433926

Description

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

 - In Moodle 2.x and 3.x, web service tokens are not invalidated when the user password is changed or forced
 to be changed. (CVE-2016-7038)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2phx-w35g-x9vm

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 433926

Version: Revision 1.2

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: 2.8

Percentile: 22.22

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-7038

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.3

Temporal Score: 6.4

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

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: 9/12/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-7038

BID: 93174

cwe: CWE-640