GHSA-c3j6-33r4-89q3

Moodle Client side denial of service via personal message

At a glance

Published
Updated
CVE
CVE-2021-20185
Aliases
BIT-moodle-2021-20185
CVSS_V3
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

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.

Affected packages

PackageVersions
Packagist · moodle/moodleintroduced 3.5, fixed 3.5.16
Packagist · moodle/moodleintroduced 3.8, fixed 3.8.7
Packagist · moodle/moodleintroduced 3.9, fixed 3.9.4
Packagist · moodle/moodleintroduced 3.10, fixed 3.10.1

References

Sources

SourceLicence
OSV.devCC-BY 4.0 — GitHub Advisory Database