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SCA: security update for moodle/moodle (GHSA-273w-7fxj-pcp6)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 408756

Description

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

 - In Moodle, the file repository's URL parsing required additional recursion handling to mitigate the risk
 of recursion denial of service. (CVE-2021-36395)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-273w-7fxj-pcp6

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 408756

Version: Revision 1.7

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.51

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-36395

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:N/I:N/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: 3/6/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/6/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-36395