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.
Advisories
Source ID Title
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-5cx4-w4fh-fr57 Moodle Affected by Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts
Fixes

Solution

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Workaround

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History

Wed, 04 Feb 2026 12:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Moodle
Moodle moodle
Vendors & Products Moodle
Moodle moodle

Tue, 03 Feb 2026 16:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Tue, 03 Feb 2026 13:15:00 +0000

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Description 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.
Title Moodle: moodle: brute-force facilitation due to missing rate limiting in confirmation email service
Weaknesses CWE-307
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: fedora

Published:

Updated: 2026-02-03T15:43:49.951Z

Reserved: 2025-12-12T13:00:24.330Z

Link: CVE-2025-67853

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-02-03T15:43:46.563Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2026-02-03T11:15:55.663

Modified: 2026-02-03T16:44:03.343

Link: CVE-2025-67853

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-02-04T12:14:50Z

Weaknesses