Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion') Affecting moodle/moodle package, versions <2.5.9>=2.6.0, <2.6.6>=2.7.0, <2.7.3


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.87% (84th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PHP-MOODLEMOODLE-6187621
  • published25 Jan 2024
  • disclosed13 May 2022
  • creditDan Poltawski

Introduced: 13 May 2022

CVE-2014-7847  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade moodle/moodle to version 2.5.9, 2.6.6, 2.7.3 or higher.

Overview

moodle/moodle is a learning platform.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion') via the iplookup/index.php script. An attacker can exhaust system resources and disrupt service by triggering the calculation of an estimated latitude and longitude for an IP address.

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