CVE-2012-3398

medium

Description

Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in Moodle 1.9.x before 1.9.19, 2.0.x before 2.0.10, 2.1.x before 2.1.7, and 2.2.x before 2.2.4 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) by using the advanced-search feature on a database activity that has many records.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/76964

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54481

http://secunia.com/advisories/49890

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/07/17/1

http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=refs%2Fheads%2FMOODLE_22_STABLE&st=commit&s=MDL-32126

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2012-07-23

Updated: 2020-12-01

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium