PT-2015-1589 · Moodle · Moodle

Rob · Published 2015-03-18 · Updated 2022-05-13 · CVE-2015-2268

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.8

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Moodle versions 2.5.9 and earlier, 2.6.x through 2.6.8, 2.7.x through 2.7.5, 2.8.x through 2.8.3

Description The issue is related to improper resource management in the filter/urltolink/filter.php component of the Moodle learning management system. It allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service, resulting in CPU consumption or partial outage, by sending a crafted string that is matched against an improper regular expression.

Recommendations For versions 2.5.9 and earlier, update to a version later than 2.5.9. For versions 2.6.x through 2.6.8, update to version 2.6.9 or later. For versions 2.7.x through 2.7.5, update to version 2.7.6 or later. For versions 2.8.x through 2.8.3, update to version 2.8.4 or later.

Fix

DoS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

BDU:2015-10921

CVE-2015-2268

GHSA-36CM-VRQH-8P98

MGASA-2015-0110

Affected Products

Moodle

References · 31

• https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=307382 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-2268 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-2268 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-36cm-vrqh-8p98 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-2268 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2015-0110 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0110.html · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-10921 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-2268 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/moodle/moodle · Note
• https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/07323f50ffc71f8ba1b2914ec8947451e32a61c1 · Note
• https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/1b249517781dbb49aa19040d7bb6d446d325bf8e · Note
• https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/12ba38e725440eda73301d1dd354583c26d2c65d · Note
• https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/71ab589855e6ce9fa9a30051f8efd6153284344e · Note
• https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/82406581afc4fa6e18051900434004d8563cf5c0 · Note