CVEvulnerability

CVE-2015-1493

6.8 MEDIUM Published 2015-06-01 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2015-06-01
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the min_get_slash_argument function in lib/configonlylib.php in Moodle through 2.5.9, 2.6.x before 2.6.8, 2.7.x before 2.7.5, and 2.8.x before 2.8.3 allows remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the file parameter, as demonstrated by reading PHP scripts.

Affected configurations

• moodle moodle (<= 2.5.9) • moodle moodle 2.5.0 • moodle moodle 2.5.1 • moodle moodle 2.5.2 • moodle moodle 2.5.3 • moodle moodle 2.5.4 • moodle moodle 2.5.5 • moodle moodle 2.5.6 • moodle moodle 2.5.7 • moodle moodle 2.5.8 • moodle moodle 2.6.0 • moodle moodle 2.6.1 • moodle moodle 2.6.2 • moodle moodle 2.6.3 • moodle moodle 2.6.4 • moodle moodle 2.6.5 • moodle moodle 2.6.6 • moodle moodle 2.6.7 • moodle moodle 2.6.8 • moodle moodle 2.7.0 • moodle moodle 2.7.1 • moodle moodle 2.7.2 • moodle moodle 2.7.3 • moodle moodle 2.7.4 • moodle moodle 2.8.0 • moodle moodle 2.8.1 • moodle moodle 2.8.2

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness

References