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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.4

CVE-2025-67856 json

Moodle: moodle: privilege escalation via incomplete role checks in badge awarding

published 2026-02-03 9 mo ago modified 2026-09-08 2 mo ago also BIT-moodle-2025-67856 , EUVD-2025-206750 , GHSA-hcm6-q6pc-xfhm

cvss
5.4
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 23%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A flaw was found in Moodle. An authorization logic flaw, specifically due to incomplete role checks during the badge awarding process, allowed badges to be granted without proper verification. This could enable unauthorized users to obtain badges they are not entitled to, potentially leading to privilege escalation or unauthorized access to certain features.

Patch / fix

  • packagist moodle/moodle 4.1.22, 4.4.12, 4.5.8, 5.0.4, 5.1.1
  • bitnami moodle 4.1.22, 4.4.12, 4.5.8, 5.0.4, 5.1.1
  • moodle moodle 4.1.22, 4.4.12, 4.5.8, 5.0.4

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-2025-67856 updated cvss 5.4

moodle: Moodle: Privilege escalation via incomplete role checks in badge awarding

  • 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

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
9 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.30% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 23% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 5.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
GitHub 3.1 5.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
OSV 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
packagist moodle/moodle
<4.1.22
>=4.4.0-beta, <4.4.12
>=4.5.0-beta, <4.5.8
>=5.0.0-beta, <5.0.4
>=5.1.0-beta, <5.1.1
4.1.22
4.4.12
4.5.8
5.0.4
5.1.1
bitnami moodle
<4.1.22
>=4.4.0, <4.4.12
>=4.5.0, <4.5.8
>=5.0.0, <5.0.4
>=5.1.0, <5.1.1
4.1.22
4.4.12
4.5.8
5.0.4
5.1.1

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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