CVE-2020-25701

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.4% 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

If the upload course tool in Moodle was used to delete an enrollment method which did not exist or was not already enabled, the tool would erroneously enable that enrollment method. This could lead to unintended users gaining access to the 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=1895432
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=413939
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1895432
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=413939

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