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Fencer Intel
high 7.5

CVE-2014-7845 json

Moodle Temporary Passwords are Brute Force-able

published 2014-11-24 11 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-9v64-447r-wch6 , EUVD-2022-3448

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.4%
EPSS 2.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 84%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • packagist moodle/moodle 2.5.9, 2.6.6, 2.7.3

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2014-7845 updated cvss 4.3

moodle: security issues fixed in versions 2.7.3, 2.6.6 and 2.5.9

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

2.41% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 84% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
packagist moodle/moodle
>=2.7.0, <2.7.3
>=2.6.0, <2.6.6
>=2.5.0, <2.5.9
2.7.3
2.6.6
2.5.9

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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