CVE-2015-2268

medium

Description

filter/urltolink/filter.php in Moodle through 2.5.9, 2.6.x before 2.6.9, 2.7.x before 2.7.6, and 2.8.x before 2.8.4 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or partial outage) via a crafted string that is matched against an improper regular expression.

References

https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=307382

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/16/1

http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-38466

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2015-06-01

Updated: 2020-12-01

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

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

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