CVE-2020-25698

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2020-11-19 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-284

Description

Users' enrollment capabilities were not being sufficiently checked in Moodle when they are restored into an existing course. This could lead to them unenrolling users without having permission to do so. Versions affected: 3.5 to 3.5.14, 3.7 to 3.7.8, 3.8 to 3.8.5, 3.9 to 3.9.2 and earlier unsupported versions. Fixed in 3.9.3, 3.8.6, 3.7.9, 3.5.15, and 3.10.

Affected products

Fedoraproject Fedora: 32, 33
Moodle: from 3.5.0 through 3.5.14; from 3.7.0 through 3.7.8; from 3.8.0 through 3.8.5; from 3.9.0 through 3.9.2

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1895419
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4NNFCHPPHRJNJROIX6SYMHOC6HMKP3GU/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/B55KXBVAT45MDASJ3EK6VIGQOYGJ4NH6/
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=413935
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1895419
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4NNFCHPPHRJNJROIX6SYMHOC6HMKP3GU/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/B55KXBVAT45MDASJ3EK6VIGQOYGJ4NH6/
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=413935

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