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SCA: security update for moodle/moodle (GHSA-phqj-xp48-7p7c)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 434002

Description

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

 - Moodle 2.0.x before 2.0.2 does not use the forceloginforprofiles setting for course-profiles access
 control, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain potentially sensitive information via
 vectors involving use of a search engine, as demonstrated by the search functionality of Google, Yahoo!,
 Wrensoft Zoom, MSN, Yandex, and AltaVista. (CVE-2011-4279)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-phqj-xp48-7p7c

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 434002

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: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

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-2011-4279

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.7

Threat Score: 6.6

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/13/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/16/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-4279

BID: 78391