CVE-2026-26047

MEDIUM

Moodle 4.5.0-4.5.8 and 5.1.0-beta-5.1.1 - Authenticated Denial of Service via TeX Formula Rendering

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Vendor Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-26047
Issue Tracking issue-tracking x_refsource_redhat
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2440905

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5
EPSS 0.0043
EPSS Percentile 34.6%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-400 CWE-770
Status published
Products (2)
moodle/moodle < 4.5.9
moodle/moodle 5.1.0-beta - 5.1.2Packagist
Published Feb 21, 2026
Tracked Since Feb 21, 2026