High
Security advisory
Unrestricted file upload vulnerability in the "legacy course files" and "file manager" modules 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.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2016-9186
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:01 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Unrestricted file upload vulnerability in the "legacy course files" and "file manager" modules 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.
osv:CVE-2016-9186
Complete source record
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