CVEvulnerability

CVE-2026-26047

6.5 MEDIUM Published 2026-02-21 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2026-02-21
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-400, CWE-770

Description

A denial-of-service vulnerability was identified in Moodle’s TeX formula editor. When rendering TeX content using mimetex, insufficient execution time limits could allow specially crafted formulas to consume excessive server resources. An authenticated user could abuse this behavior to degrade performance or cause service interruption.

Affected configurations

• moodle moodle (< 4.5.9) • moodle moodle (>= 5.0.0 < 5.0.5) • moodle moodle (>= 5.1.0 < 5.1.2)

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling weakness

References