CVE-2015-2268 in Moodle

Summary

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.

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• Reservation: 03/09/2015
• Disclosure: 06/01/2015
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: 1
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-399 (Confirmed)
• CVSS: 5.3
• EPSS: 0.00590
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-2268
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-2268
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2015-2268/