PT-2015-1609 · Moodle · Moodle

Nicolas Martignoni · Published 2015-01-20 · Updated 2022-05-13 · CVE-2015-0217

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 before 2.6.7, 2.7.x before 2.7.4, 2.8.x before 2.8.2

Description The issue is related to resource management errors in the filter/mediaplugin/filter.php component of the Moodle learning management system. It can be exploited by a remote attacker using a specially crafted string containing regular expressions, potentially leading to a denial of service (DoS) by consuming CPU resources or causing a partial outage.

Recommendations For versions 2.5.9 and earlier, update to a version later than 2.5.9. For versions 2.6.x before 2.6.7, update to version 2.6.7 or later. For versions 2.7.x before 2.7.4, update to version 2.7.4 or later. For versions 2.8.x before 2.8.2, update to version 2.8.2 or later.

Fix

DoS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

BDU:2015-10942

CVE-2015-0217

GHSA-P497-37FC-XVVC

MGASA-2015-0032

Affected Products

Moodle

References · 30

• https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=278617 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-0217 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-0217 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-0217 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-10942 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2015-0032 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0032.html · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-p497-37fc-xvvc · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-0217 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/moodle/moodle · Note
• https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/01da07a42be0f69de9f316be6ee8cb25ecd60c19 · Note
• https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/70229b7ec718ee3929109c54de74a8d14264a166 · Note
• https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/5329d84f0b5767f5bb800b203bfb89753ac35146 · Note
• https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/531492a32cf77f90bc48c4868a5f71dd7040049f · Note
• https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/63ed941a9363b6da3322df2b8de5be0d1df6d81a · Note