SCA: security update for moodle/moodle (GHSA-grj4-g57c-9xmv)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 437043

Description

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

- When creating a user account, it was possible to verify the account without having access to the
verification email link/secret in moodle before 3.10.2, 3.9.5, 3.8.8, 3.5.17. (CVE-2021-20282)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-grj4-g57c-9xmv

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 437043

Version: Revision 1.2

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/27/2026

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: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-20282

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/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: 5/24/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/15/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-20282

cwe: CWE-863