CVE-2021-20185

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-20185
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-20185.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2021-20185
Aliases
Downstream
Published
2021-01-28T20:15:13.133Z
Modified
2026-07-08T22:14:54.483756Z
Severity
  • 5.3 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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

Affected packages

Git / github.com/moodle/moodle

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/moodle/moodle
Events
Database specific
{
    "cpe": [
        "cpe:2.3:a:moodle:moodle:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
        "cpe:2.3:a:moodle:moodle:3.10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
    ],
    "source": [
        "CPE_RANGE",
        "CPE_STRING"
    ],
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "3.5.0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "3.5.16"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "3.8.0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "3.8.7"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "3.9.0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "3.9.4"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "3.10.0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "3.10.0"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

3.*
3.10.0
v3.*
v3.10.0
v3.5.0
v3.5.1
v3.5.10
v3.5.11
v3.5.12
v3.5.13
v3.5.14
v3.5.15
v3.5.2
v3.5.3
v3.5.4
v3.5.5
v3.5.6
v3.5.7
v3.5.8
v3.5.9
v3.8.0
v3.8.1
v3.8.2
v3.8.3
v3.8.4
v3.8.5
v3.8.6
v3.9.0
v3.9.1
v3.9.2
v3.9.3

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-20185.json"