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Moodle allows attackers to cause a denial of service

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 13, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 25, 2024

Package

composer moodle/moodle (Composer)

Affected versions

< 2.6.9
>= 2.7.0, < 2.7.6
>= 2.8.0, < 2.8.4

Patched versions

2.6.9
2.7.6
2.8.4

Description

filter/urltolink/filter.php in Moodle through 2.5.9, 2.6.x before 2.6.9, 2.7.x before 2.7.6, and 2.8.x before 2.8.4 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or partial outage) via a crafted string that is matched against an improper regular expression.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jun 1, 2015
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 13, 2022
Reviewed Jan 25, 2024
Last updated Jan 25, 2024

Severity

Moderate

Weaknesses

No CWEs

CVE ID

CVE-2015-2268

GHSA ID

GHSA-36cm-vrqh-8p98

Source code

Credits

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