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CVE-2025-62399 (GCVE-0-2025-62399)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-23 11:28 – Updated: 2025-10-23 14:52
VLAI
Title
Moodle: password brute force risk when mobile/web services enabled
Summary
Moodle’s mobile and web service authentication endpoints did not sufficiently restrict repeated password attempts, making them susceptible to brute-force attacks.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-10-23 14:51 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-307 - Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-62399 vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2404432 issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHAT
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Affected: 5.0.0 , < 5.0.3 (semver)
Affected: 4.5.0 , < 4.5.7 (semver)
Affected: 4.4.0 , < 4.4.11 (semver)
Affected: 4.1.0 , < 4.1.21 (semver)
Date Public
2025-10-14 04:00
Credits
Red Hat would like to thank Petr Skoda for reporting this issue.
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