Resource management error in Moodle - CVE-2015-5332
Published: February 22, 2016 / Updated: August 9, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU40461
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.2 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2015-5332
CWE-ID: CWE-399
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to a crash the entire system.
Atto in Moodle 2.8.x before 2.8.9 and 2.9.x before 2.9.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (disk consumption) by leveraging the guest role and entering drafts with the editor-autosave feature.
Affected software
Moodle
Fedora
moodle
Fedora
moodle
How to mitigate CVE-2015-5332
Install update from vendor's website.
moodle - addressed in versions 2.7.11-1.el6, 2.8.9-1.fc22, 2.9.3-1.fc23, 3.0-1.el7, 3.0.1-1.el7