VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-3398

medium
Published 2012-07-23 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
4.0

Description

Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in Moodle 1.9.x before 1.9.19, 2.0.x before 2.0.10, 2.1.x before 2.1.7, and 2.2.x before 2.2.4 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) by using the advanced-search feature on a database activity that has many records.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
moodlemoodle1.9.1
moodlemoodle1.9.2
moodlemoodle1.9.3
moodlemoodle1.9.4
moodlemoodle1.9.5
moodlemoodle1.9.6
moodlemoodle1.9.7
moodlemoodle1.9.8
moodlemoodle1.9.9
moodlemoodle1.9.10
moodlemoodle1.9.11
moodlemoodle1.9.12
moodlemoodle1.9.13
moodlemoodle1.9.14
moodlemoodle1.9.15
moodlemoodle1.9.16
moodlemoodle1.9.17
moodlemoodle1.9.18
moodlemoodle2.0.0
moodlemoodle2.0.1
moodlemoodle2.0.2
moodlemoodle2.0.3
moodlemoodle2.0.4
moodlemoodle2.0.5
moodlemoodle2.0.6
moodlemoodle2.0.7
moodlemoodle2.0.8
moodlemoodle2.0.9
moodlemoodle2.1.0
moodlemoodle2.1.1
moodlemoodle2.1.2
moodlemoodle2.1.3
moodlemoodle2.1.4
moodlemoodle2.1.5
moodlemoodle2.1.6
moodlemoodle2.2.0
moodlemoodle2.2.1
moodlemoodle2.2.2
moodlemoodle2.2.3

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.