MSA-21-0023: Recursion denial of service possible due to recursive cURL in file repository

by Michael Hawkins.  

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


Severity/Risk:Serious
Versions affected:3.11, 3.10 to 3.10.4, 3.9 to 3.9.7 and earlier unsupported versions
Versions fixed:3.11.1, 3.10.5 and 3.9.8
Reported by:0xkasper
CVE identifier:CVE-2021-36395
Changes (master):http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-71922
Tracker issue:MDL-71922 Recursion denial of service possible due to recursive cURL in file repository

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