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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

Published

2025-11-17 23:47

Modified

2025-11-18 00:06

Summary

Moodle: password brute force risk when mobile/web services enabled

Details

Moodle’s mobile and web service authentication endpoints did not sufficiently restrict repeated password attempts, making them susceptible to brute-force attacks.

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        "purl": "pkg:bitnami/moodle"
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            },
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  ],
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    "CVE-2025-62399"
  ],
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    ],
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  },
  "details": "Moodle\u2019s mobile and web service authentication endpoints did not sufficiently restrict repeated password attempts, making them susceptible to brute-force attacks.",
  "id": "BIT-moodle-2025-62399",
  "modified": "2025-11-18T00:06:24.423Z",
  "published": "2025-11-17T23:47:47.926Z",
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      "type": "WEB",
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    },
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    },
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    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.6.2",
  "summary": "Moodle: password brute force risk when mobile/web services enabled"
}

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

CWE

CWE-307 - Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts

Assigner

fedora

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
			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)

Credits

Red Hat would like to thank Petr Skoda for reporting this issue.

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Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

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

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