CVE-2025-67853 PUBLISHED

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

Assigner: fedora
Reserved: 12.12.2025 Published: 03.02.2026 Updated: 03.02.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS Score: 7.5

Product Status

Package Collection https://github.com/moodle/moodle/
Package Name moodle
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 4.1.0 to 4.1.22 (excl.)
  • affected from 4.4.0 to 4.4.12 (excl.)
  • affected from 4.5.0 to 4.5.8 (excl.)
  • affected from 5.0.0 to 5.0.4 (excl.)
  • affected from 5.1.0 to 5.1.1 (excl.)

Credits

  • Red Hat would like to thank Petr Skoda for reporting this issue.

References

Problem Types

  • Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts CWE