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Uncontrolled Recursion

CVE-2021-36395

High
7.5/10

Summary

In Moodle, the File Repository's URL parsing required additional Recursion Handling to mitigate the risk of recursion Denial of Service. This issue affects versions prior to 3.9.8, 3.10.x prior to 3.10.5 , and 3.11.x prior to 3.11.1.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH

CWE-674 - Uncontrolled Recursion

The product does not properly control the amount of recursion which takes place, consuming excessive resources, such as allocated memory or the program stack.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published