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Moodle Double-Caches Content, Potentially Writing to a File System's Tmp Directory

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 13, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 17, 2024

Package

composer moodle/moodle (Composer)

Affected versions

>= 2.0, < 2.0.4
>= 2.1, < 2.1.1

Patched versions

2.0.4
2.1.1

Description

The theme implementation in Moodle 2.0.x before 2.0.4 and 2.1.x before 2.1.1 triggers duplicate caching of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and JavaScript content, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions and write to an operating-system temporary directory via unspecified vectors.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jul 16, 2012
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 13, 2022
Reviewed Jan 17, 2024
Last updated Jan 17, 2024

Severity

Moderate

EPSS score

0.574%
(78th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2011-4293

GHSA ID

GHSA-wxvp-8q8h-r6rr

Source code

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