CVE-2021-36395 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

In Moodle, the file repository's URL parsing required additional recursion handling to mitigate the risk of recursion denial of service.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Moodle	Moodle

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:moodle:moodle::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:moodle:moodle::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:moodle:moodle::::::::

No data.

References

Link	Providers
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=424801

History

Fri, 07 Mar 2025 19:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: fedora

Published: 2023-03-06T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-03-07T19:09:18.693Z

Reserved: 2021-07-12T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2021-36395

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-04T00:54:51.521Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-03-06T21:15:10.513

Modified: 2025-03-07T19:15:32.300

Link: CVE-2021-36395

Redhat

No data.

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