SCA: security update for moodle/moodle (GHSA-8vjj-wf73-w882)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 433943

Description

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

- The default configuration of Moodle 2.0.x before 2.0.2 has an incorrect setting of the
moodle/course:delete capability, which allows remote authenticated users to delete arbitrary courses by
leveraging the teacher role. (CVE-2011-4285)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8vjj-wf73-w882

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 433943

Version: Revision 1.3

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: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2011-4285

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:N/I:H/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: 7/16/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-4285

BID: 78408

cwe: CWE-276