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SCA: security update for moodle/moodle (GHSA-cg8j-5cr2-568q)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 438001

Description

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

 - A denial-of-service vulnerability was identified in Moodle’s TeX formula editor. When rendering TeX
 content using mimetex, insufficient execution time limits could allow specially crafted formulas to
 consume excessive server resources. An authenticated user could abuse this behavior to degrade performance
 or cause service interruption. (CVE-2026-26047)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-cg8j-5cr2-568q

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 438001

Version: Revision 1.6

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 2/27/2026

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.73

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:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-26047

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:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/21/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/21/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-26047