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SCA: security update for moodle/moodle (GHSA-622h-cjgg-5mx6)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 434083

Description

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

 - files/externallib.php in Moodle through 2.5.9, 2.6.x before 2.6.11, 2.7.x before 2.7.8, and 2.8.x before
 2.8.6 does not consider the moodle/user:manageownfiles capability before approving a private-file upload,
 which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended file-management restrictions by using web
 services to perform uploads after this capability has been revoked. (CVE-2015-3181)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-622h-cjgg-5mx6

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 434083

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: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.04

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-2015-3181

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 7.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/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: 5/18/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-3181

BID: 74728