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SCA: security update for moodle/moodle (GHSA-382v-gxj9-ffhc)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 431746

Description

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

 - lib/moodlelib.php in Moodle through 2.6.11, 2.7.x before 2.7.10, 2.8.x before 2.8.8, and 2.9.x before
 2.9.2 relies on the PHP mt_rand function to implement the random_string and complex_random_string
 functions, which makes it easier for remote attackers to predict password-recovery tokens via a brute-
 force approach. (CVE-2015-5267)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-382v-gxj9-ffhc

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 431746

Version: Revision 1.2

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/7/2025

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: 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-2015-5267

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/13/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/21/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-5267

BID: 76883

cwe: CWE-200