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Moodle: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion') (CVE-2020-25630)

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Moodle: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion') (CVE-2020-25630)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
12/08/2020
Created
12/11/2020
Added
12/10/2020
Modified
03/07/2024

Description

A vulnerability was found in Moodle where the decompressed size of zip files was not checked against available user quota before unzipping them, which could lead to a denial of service risk. This affects versions 3.9 to 3.9.1, 3.8 to 3.8.4, 3.7 to 3.7.7, 3.5 to 3.5.13 and earlier unsupported versions. Fixed in 3.9.2, 3.8.5, 3.7.8 and 3.5.14.

Solution(s)

  • moodle-upgrade-3_5_14
  • moodle-upgrade-3_7_8
  • moodle-upgrade-3_8_5
  • moodle-upgrade-3_9_2

References

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