CVE-2021-20185: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

January 28, 2021 (updated October 21, 2022)

It was found in Moodle that messaging does 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

moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=417168
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-20185

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