CVE-2025-62401 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact Low

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Moodle	Moodle

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References

Link	Providers
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-62401
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2404434

History

Fri, 24 Oct 2025 10:30:00 +0000

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

Thu, 23 Oct 2025 15:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Thu, 23 Oct 2025 11:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Description		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.
Title		Moodle: possible to bypass timer in timed assignments
Weaknesses		CWE-285
References		https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-62401 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2404434
Metrics		cvssV3_1 `{'score': 5.4, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: fedora

Published: 2025-10-23T11:29:32.189Z

Updated: 2025-10-23T14:39:05.405Z

Reserved: 2025-10-13T10:12:30.926Z

Link: CVE-2025-62401

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-10-23T14:38:23.450Z

NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2025-10-23T12:15:32.970

Modified: 2025-10-27T13:20:33.350

Link: CVE-2025-62401

Redhat

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