CVE 6.5 MEDIUM

Moodle: moodle: uncontrolled resource consumption in tex formula editor leading to denial of service_CVE-2026-26047

6.5 / 10
MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2026-26047
Source fedora
Published Feb 21, 2026 at 05:40

Affected Product

Version 5.1.0
Affected Versions 0
5.0.0
5.1.0

CWE Classification

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