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Moodle Temporary Passwords are Brute Force-able

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 13, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 24, 2024

Package

composer moodle/moodle (Composer)

Affected versions

>= 2.7.0, <= 2.7.2
>= 2.6.0, <= 2.6.5
>= 2.5.0, <= 2.5.8

Patched versions

2.7.3
2.6.6
2.5.9

Description

The generate_password function in Moodle through 2.4.11, 2.5.x before 2.5.9, 2.6.x before 2.6.6, and 2.7.x before 2.7.3 does not provide a sufficient number of possible temporary passwords, which allows remote attackers to obtain access via a brute-force attack.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Nov 24, 2014
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 13, 2022
Reviewed Aug 15, 2023
Last updated Jan 24, 2024

Severity

High

EPSS score

0.651%
(79th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2014-7845

GHSA ID

GHSA-9v64-447r-wch6

Source code

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