CVE-2006-4938 (GCVE-0-2006-4938)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2006-09-23 00:00 – Updated: 2024-09-16 19:46
VLAI
Summary
help.php in Moodle before 1.6.2 does not check the existence of certain help files before including them, which might allow remote authenticated users to obtain the path in an error message.
Severity
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CWE
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