CVE-2015-1493

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-06-01 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: 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 products

Moodle: through 2.5.9; 2.5.0, 2.5.1, 2.5.2, 2.5.3, 2.5.4, 2.5.5 (+20)

References

http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=af9a7937cc085f96bdbc4724cadec6eeae0242fc
http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-48980
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/04/15
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/09/2
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=279956
http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=af9a7937cc085f96bdbc4724cadec6eeae0242fc
http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-48980
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/04/15
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/09/2
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=279956

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