cve-2021-20185
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-01-28 19:01
Modified
2024-08-03 17:30
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=417168Patch, Vendor Advisory
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