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

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-23 11:29 – Updated: 2025-10-23 14:39
VLAI?
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
Assigner
References
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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