CVE-2015-1493
Directory traversal vulnerability in the min_get_slash_argument function in lib/configonlylib.php in Moodle through 2.5.9, 2.6.x before…
- 6.8MediumCVSS base score
- 2.6%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 14% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 4 months later
· 4 months later
Published
- 9 years later
· 9 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium6.8 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.6% · top 14% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Packagistmoodle/moodleGHSA-gphj-63h8-r9vq (opens in a new tab)
References
5
- [oss-security] 20150209 Moodle security issue made public (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20150204 CVE request for Moodlee MDL-48980 Security: Always clean the result from min_get_slash_argument (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=af9a7937cc085f96bdbc4724cadec6eeae0242fc (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-48980 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=279956 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2022-3985 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-gphj-63h8-r9vq (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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