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SCA: security update for moodle/moodle (GHSA-crcq-pw8h-9xwf)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 432731

Description

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

 - lib/setup.php in Moodle through 2.4.11, 2.5.x before 2.5.9, 2.6.x before 2.6.6, and 2.7.x before 2.7.3
 does not provide charset information in HTTP headers, which might allow remote attackers to conduct cross-
 site scripting (XSS) attacks via UTF-7 characters during interaction with AJAX scripts. (CVE-2014-9059)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-crcq-pw8h-9xwf

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 432731

Version: Revision 1.2

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/11/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.3

Percentile: 8.67

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-9059

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/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: 11/17/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-9059

BID: 71133

cwe: CWE-79