CVE-2025-62399 | Moodle: password brute force risk when mobile/web services enabled

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

Published: 2025-10-23 Last update: 2025-11-14 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Analyzed，CVE State: published
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CVE-2025-62399 is rated Low Risk (35.9/100): CVSS High severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.05%). Monitor for updates and reassess as exploit intelligence or EPSS changes.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2025-62399

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2025-10-23 — 0.05% —

Full EPSS history (1 record total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2025-62399

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
7.5 3.1 HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:N)
Nobody has to click “OK” or open a trap file; it can work without a victim helping.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:N)
Doesn’t really leak secrets in a meaningful way.
Integrity (I:N)
Data isn’t meaningfully altered or forged.
Availability (A:H)
Could take the service down hard or make it unusable for people who depend on it.
 3.9 3.6 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2025-62399

GitHub Security Advisory for CVE-2025-62399

GHSA-m58f-9pvv-8mp2 · Severity: high · Ecosystem: composer — Moodle vulnerable to brute-force password guesses

OS Trackers for CVE-2025-62399

vendor priority summary link
ubuntu medium CVE-2025-62399 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (moodle), 7 status rows across 7 suites (bionic, jammy, noble, plucky, questing, upstream, xenial): DNE 4, needs-triage 3. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-62399

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2025-62399

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
moodle moodle >= 4.1.0, < 4.1.21 cpe:2.3:a:moodle:moodle:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
moodle moodle >= 4.4.0, < 4.4.11 cpe:2.3:a:moodle:moodle:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
moodle moodle >= 4.5.0, < 4.5.7 cpe:2.3:a:moodle:moodle:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
moodle moodle >= 5.0.0, < 5.0.3 cpe:2.3:a:moodle:moodle:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2025-62399

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