Directory Traversal The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package moodle (opens in a new tab)
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- published1 Jun 2015
- disclosed1 Jun 2015
Introduced: 1 Jun 2015
CVE-2015-1493 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:18.10.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream moodle package and not the moodle package as distributed by Ubuntu.
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.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2015-1493
- http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git;a=commit;h=af9a7937cc085f96bdbc4724cadec6eeae0242fc
- http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-48980
- https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=279956
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/04/15
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/09/2
- http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=af9a7937cc085f96bdbc4724cadec6eeae0242fc