PT-2016-1300 · Moodle · Moodle

Frédéric Massart · Published 2015-12-05 · Updated 2020-12-01 · CVE-2015-5332

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.1

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Moodle versions 2.8.x through 2.8.8 Moodle versions 2.9.x through 2.9.2

Description The issue is related to resource management errors in the Atto component of the Moodle learning management system. It can be exploited by a remote attacker using the guest role and the editor-autosave feature, potentially leading to a denial of service due to disk consumption.

Recommendations For Moodle versions 2.8.x through 2.8.8, update to version 2.8.9 or later. For Moodle versions 2.9.x through 2.9.2, update to version 2.9.3 or later.

Fix

DoS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

BDU:2016-00597

CVE-2015-5332

MGASA-2015-0464

Affected Products

Moodle

References · 19

• https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=323229 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0464.html · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2015-0464 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2016-00597 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-5332 · Security Note
• http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-51000 · Note
• https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=323233 · Note
• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17280 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-5332 · Note
• https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=323237 · Note
• https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=323234 · Note
• https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=323236 · Note
• https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Moodle_2.8.9_release_notes · Note
• https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=323230 · Note
• https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=322852 · Note