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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

Published

2025-11-17 23:47

Modified

2025-11-18 00:06

Summary

Moodle: possible to bypass timer in timed assignments

Details

An issue in Moodle’s timed assignment feature allowed students to bypass the time restriction, potentially giving them more time than allowed to complete an assessment.

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            },
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              "fixed": "4.4.11"
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        }
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    }
  ],
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  ],
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    ],
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  },
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  "id": "BIT-moodle-2025-62401",
  "modified": "2025-11-18T00:06:24.423Z",
  "published": "2025-11-17T23:47:50.898Z",
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    },
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    },
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    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.6.2",
  "summary": "Moodle: possible to bypass timer in timed assignments"
}

CVE-2025-62401 (GCVE-0-2025-62401)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-23 11:29 – Updated: 2025-10-23 14:39

Title

Moodle: possible to bypass timer in timed assignments

Summary

An issue in Moodle’s timed assignment feature allowed students to bypass the time restriction, potentially giving them more time than allowed to complete an assessment.

Severity ?

5.4 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L

CWE

CWE-285 - Improper Authorization

Assigner

fedora

References

URL

Tags

	https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-62401	vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHAT
	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2404434	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 Charles Fulton for reporting this issue.

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Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
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-2025-62401 (GCVE-0-2025-62401)

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