CVE-2015-5332

Publication date 22 February 2016

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

Atto in Moodle 2.8.x before 2.8.9 and 2.9.x before 2.9.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (disk consumption) by leveraging the guest role and entering drafts with the editor-autosave feature.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
moodle	15.10 wily	Not affected
	15.04 vivid	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
	12.04 LTS precise	Not affected

Notes

seth-arnold

affected only 2.8.x and 2.9.x

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 6.8 · Medium

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	High
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Changed
Confidentiality impact	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.8 · Medium
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H