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SCA: security update for moodle/moodle (GHSA-m37g-mwcg-7j7v)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 423116

Description

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

 - Insufficient escaping of the LaTeX preamble made it possible for site administrators to read files
 available to the HTTP server system account. (CVE-2021-40694)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-m37g-mwcg-7j7v

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 423116

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/29/2025

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: 6.1

Temporal Score: 4.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-40694

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/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: 9/30/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/21/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-40694

cwe: CWE-116