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SCA: security update for moodle/moodle (GHSA-gphj-63h8-r9vq)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 431747

Description

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

 - Directory traversal vulnerability in the min_get_slash_argument function in lib/configonlylib.php in
 Moodle through 2.5.9, 2.6.x before 2.6.8, 2.7.x before 2.7.5, and 2.8.x before 2.8.3 allows remote
 authenticated users to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the file parameter, as demonstrated by
 reading PHP scripts. (CVE-2015-1493)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-gphj-63h8-r9vq

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 431747

Version: Revision 1.3

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: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-1493

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/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: 2/4/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-1493

BID: 72507

cwe: CWE-22