Moodle Permissions Privileges and Access Controls Vulnerability - CVE-2015-3181 - Vulnerability Database

Moodle Permissions Privileges and Access Controls Vulnerability - CVE-2015-3181

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Reference: CVE-2015-3181
Title: Moodle Permissions Privileges and Access Controls Vulnerability
Overview:

files/externallib.php in Moodle through 2.5.9 2.6.x before 2.6.11 2.7.x before 2.7.8 and 2.8.x before 2.8.6 does not consider the moodle/user:manageownfiles capability before approving a private-file upload which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended file-management restrictions by using web services to perform uploads after this capability has been revoked.