CVE-2025-67853 | Moodle: moodle: brute-force facilitation due to missing rate limiting in confirmation email service

A flaw was found in Moodle. A remote attacker could exploit a lack of proper rate limiting in the confirmation email service. This vulnerability allows attackers to more easily enumerate or guess user credentials, facilitating brute-force attacks against user accounts.

Published: 2026-02-03 Last update: 2026-02-11 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Analyzed，CVE State: published
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CVE-2025-67853 is rated Low Risk (34.5/100): CVSS High severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.04%). Monitor for updates and reassess as exploit intelligence or EPSS changes.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2025-67853

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 2026-02-03 — 0.04% —

Full EPSS history (1 record total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2025-67853

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:H/I:N/A:N 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:H)
Serious risk that confidential data gets exposed in a big way.
Integrity (I:N)
Data isn’t meaningfully altered or forged.
Availability (A:N)
Service keeps running; no real outage angle.
 3.9 3.6 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2025-67853

GitHub Security Advisory for CVE-2025-67853

GHSA-5cx4-w4fh-fr57 · Severity: high · Ecosystem: composer — Moodle Affected by Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts

OS Trackers for CVE-2025-67853

vendor priority summary link
ubuntu medium CVE-2025-67853 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (moodle), 6 status rows across 6 suites (bionic, jammy, noble, questing, upstream, xenial): DNE 3, needs-triage 3. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-67853

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2025-67853

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
moodle moodle < 4.1.22 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, < 4.5.8 cpe:2.3:a:moodle:moodle:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
moodle moodle >= 5.0.0, < 5.0.4 cpe:2.3:a:moodle:moodle:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
moodle moodle 5.1.0 cpe:2.3:a:moodle:moodle:5.1.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2025-67853

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