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GHSA-M58F-9PVV-8MP2

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-10-23 12:31 – Updated: 2025-10-24 20:58

Summary

Moodle vulnerable to brute-force password guesses

Details

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

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  "modified": "2025-10-24T20:58:12Z",
  "published": "2025-10-23T12:31:17Z",
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    },
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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

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

fedora redhat root

References

2 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

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
		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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