PT-2014-8313 · Moodle · Moodle

Dan Poltawski · Published 2014-11-22 · Updated 2022-05-13 · CVE-2014-7847

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Moodle versions 2.4.0 through 2.4.11 Moodle versions 2.5.x before 2.5.9 Moodle versions 2.6.x before 2.6.6 Moodle versions 2.7.x before 2.7.3

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by triggering the calculation of an estimated latitude and longitude for an IP address, resulting in resource consumption.

Recommendations For versions 2.4.0 through 2.4.11, update to version 2.4.12 or later. For versions 2.5.x before 2.5.9, update to version 2.5.9 or later. For versions 2.6.x before 2.6.6, update to version 2.6.6 or later. For versions 2.7.x before 2.7.3, update to version 2.7.3 or later.

Fix

DoS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

CVE-2014-7847

GHSA-6VJG-2Q57-RGFW

MGASA-2014-0483

Affected Products

Moodle

References · 30

• http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-47321 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-6vjg-2q57-rgfw · Vendor Advisory
• https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=275158 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-7847 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2014-0483 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0483.html · Security Note
• https://github.com/moodle/moodle · Note
• https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/324b018bbce2f56198fe8808968bad6c8798710a · Note
• https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/eb46bf2f4e80f4421255f6aee00b73448ba582a7 · Note
• https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/6ec47a64acf8576916c20dcbb436b0ae41a63440 · Note
• https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/35a60cbb382d78ddb9d54c772816db4c5007ca7e · Note
• https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=275164 · Note
• https://web.archive.org/web/20150914064838/http://securitytracker.com/id/1031215 · Note
• https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=275157 · Note
• https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=275165 · Note