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Moodle: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling (CVE-2021-20185)

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Moodle: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling (CVE-2021-20185)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
01/28/2021
Created
02/09/2021
Added
02/08/2021
Modified
10/24/2022

Description

It was found in Moodle before version 3.10.1, 3.9.4, 3.8.7 and 3.5.16 that messaging did not impose a character limit when sending messages, which could result in client-side (browser) denial of service for users receiving very large messages.

Solution(s)

  • moodle-upgrade-3_5_16
  • moodle-upgrade-3_8_7
  • moodle-upgrade-3_9_4

References

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