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Vulnerability details: VCID-gf7t-k2pn-gbhr
Vulnerability ID VCID-gf7t-k2pn-gbhr
Aliases CVE-2015-0217
GHSA-p497-37fc-xvvc
Summary Moodle allows attackers to cause a denial of service filter/mediaplugin/filter.php in Moodle through 2.5.9, 2.6.x before 2.6.7, 2.7.x before 2.7.4, and 2.8.x before 2.8.2 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or partial outage) via a crafted string that is matched against an improper regular expression.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 6.2
Risk 3.1
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (3)
CWE-1035 OWASP Top Ten 2017 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
CWE-399 Resource Management Errors
CWE-937 OWASP Top Ten 2013 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
System Score Found at
generic_textual MODERATE http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-48546
generic_textual MODERATE http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/19/1
epss 0.0059 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2015-0217
epss 0.0059 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2015-0217
cvssv3.1_qr MODERATE https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-p497-37fc-xvvc
generic_textual MODERATE https://github.com/moodle/moodle
generic_textual MODERATE https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/01da07a42be0f69de9f316be6ee8cb25ecd60c19
generic_textual MODERATE https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/25191bc31187f6381ad9fc690b653414ea3bc6d4
generic_textual MODERATE https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/531492a32cf77f90bc48c4868a5f71dd7040049f
generic_textual MODERATE https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/5329d84f0b5767f5bb800b203bfb89753ac35146
generic_textual MODERATE https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/63ed941a9363b6da3322df2b8de5be0d1df6d81a
generic_textual MODERATE https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/70229b7ec718ee3929109c54de74a8d14264a166
generic_textual MODERATE https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/d11969e7775b0fc1a2debf6ec91e42d25b0eeecd
generic_textual MODERATE https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=278617
generic_textual MODERATE https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-0217
Reference id Reference type URL
http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-48546
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/19/1
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2015-0217
https://github.com/moodle/moodle
https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/01da07a42be0f69de9f316be6ee8cb25ecd60c19
https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/25191bc31187f6381ad9fc690b653414ea3bc6d4
https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/531492a32cf77f90bc48c4868a5f71dd7040049f
https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/5329d84f0b5767f5bb800b203bfb89753ac35146
https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/63ed941a9363b6da3322df2b8de5be0d1df6d81a
https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/70229b7ec718ee3929109c54de74a8d14264a166
https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/d11969e7775b0fc1a2debf6ec91e42d25b0eeecd
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=278617
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-0217
GHSA-p497-37fc-xvvc https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-p497-37fc-xvvc
No exploits are available.
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.68176
EPSS Score 0.0059
Published At June 30, 2025, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2025-07-01T12:28:26.768204+00:00 GithubOSV Importer Import https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2022/05/GHSA-p497-37fc-xvvc/GHSA-p497-37fc-xvvc.json 36.1.3