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.
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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.
Title Moodle: moodle: uncontrolled resource consumption in tex formula editor leading to denial of service
Weaknesses CWE-400
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: fedora

Published:

Updated: 2026-02-21T05:40:11.001Z

Reserved: 2026-02-10T13:30:03.986Z

Link: CVE-2026-26047

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-02-21T06:17:00.377

Modified: 2026-02-21T06:17:00.377

Link: CVE-2026-26047

cve-icon Redhat

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

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