SCA: security update for moodle/moodle (GHSA-fmq9-58q4-xjw5)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 433731

Description

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

- admin/tool/monitor/lib.php in Event Monitor in Moodle 2.8.x before 2.8.11, 2.9.x before 2.9.5, and 3.0.x
before 3.0.3 does not consider the moodle/course:viewhiddencourses capability, which allows remote
authenticated users to discover hidden course names by subscribing to a rule. (CVE-2016-2154)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-fmq9-58q4-xjw5

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 433731

Version: Revision 1.2

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/19/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.2

Percentile: 0.01

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-2154

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/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: 3/14/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-2154

BID: 84978

cwe: CWE-200