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CVE-2020-25699

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.6% 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-863

Description

In moodle, insufficient capability checks could lead to users with the ability to course restore adding additional capabilities to roles within that course. Versions affected: 3.9 to 3.9.2, 3.8 to 3.8.5, 3.7 to 3.7.8, 3.5 to 3.5.14 and earlier unsupported versions. This is fixed in moodle 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=1895425
• 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=413936
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1895425
• 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=413936

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