CVE-2012-6099: Moodle

Medium severity, CVSS 4.0. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The moodle1 backup converter in backup/converter/moodle1/lib.php in Moodle 2.1.x before 2.1.10, 2.2.x before 2.2.7, 2.3.x before 2.3.4, and 2.4.x before 2.4.1 does not properly validate pathnames, which allows remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files by leveraging the backup-restoration feature.

Affected products

• Moodle Moodle: version 2.1.0 only; version 2.1.1 only; version 2.1.2 only; version 2.1.3 only; version 2.1.4 only; version 2.1.5 only; …

Published 2013-01-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.