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GHSA-W29J-8PHW-FFJF

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

Summary

Moodle has a time restriction bypass

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.

Severity

5.4 (Medium)


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

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        "name": "moodle/moodle"
      },
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            {
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  "aliases": [
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  "id": "GHSA-w29j-8phw-ffjf",
  "modified": "2025-10-24T20:58:53Z",
  "published": "2025-10-23T12:31:17Z",
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      "url": "https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/78a3fe6c618676dfc53ea538abbfe35e60674eeb"
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    },
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      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "Moodle has a time restriction bypass"
}

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

2 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

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 Charles Fulton for reporting this issue.

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date	Other

Nomenclature

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Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
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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GHSA-W29J-8PHW-FFJF

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

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