vulnerability

Moodle: CVE-2016-9187: Arbitrary File Upload Vulnerability

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Nov 4, 2016
Added
Sep 14, 2017
Modified
Oct 30, 2017

Description

Unrestricted file upload vulnerability in the double extension support in the "image" module in Moodle 3.1.2 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code by uploading a file with an executable extension, and then accessing it via unspecified vectors.

Solution

moodle-upgrade-latest
Title
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