Fedora 20 : moodle-2.5.3-1.fc20 (2013-21312)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 71063

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Latest upstreams, multiple security fixes.

Name: CVE-2013-6780 URL:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-6780 Assigned:
20131112 Reference:
https://yuilibrary.com/support/20131111-vulnerability/

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in uploader.swf in the Uploader component in Yahoo! YUI 2.5.0 through 2.9.0 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the allowedDomain parameter.

Name: CVE-2013-3630 URL:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-3630 [Open'>http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-3630'>Op en URL] Assigned: 20130521 Reference:
https://community.rapid7.com/community/metasploit/blog/2013/10/30/seve n-foss-disclosures-part-one [Open'>https://community.rapid7.com/community/metasploit/blog/2013/10/ 30/seven-foss-disclosures-part-one'>Open URL] Reference:
https://community.rapid7.com/community/metasploit/blog/2013/10/30/seve n-tricks-and-treats [Open'>https://community.rapid7.com/community/metasploit/blog/2013/10/ 30/seven-tricks-and-treats'>Open URL]

Moodle through 2.5.2 allows remote authenticated administrators to execute arbitrary programs by configuring the aspell pathname and then triggering a spell-check operation within the TinyMCE editor.

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Solution

Update the affected moodle package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 71063

File Name: fedora_2013-21312.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 11/25/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:moodle, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:20

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/14/2013

Exploitable With

Metasploit (Moodle Remote Command Execution)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-3630, CVE-2013-6780

FEDORA: 2013-21312

Detections

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