CVEvulnerability
CVE-2014-7845
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2014-11-24
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-255
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• moodle moodle (<= 2.4.11)
• moodle moodle 2.5.0
• moodle moodle 2.5.1
• moodle moodle 2.5.2
• moodle moodle 2.5.3
• moodle moodle 2.5.4
• moodle moodle 2.5.5
• moodle moodle 2.5.6
• moodle moodle 2.5.7
• moodle moodle 2.5.8
• moodle moodle 2.6.0
• moodle moodle 2.6.1
• moodle moodle 2.6.2
• moodle moodle 2.6.3
• moodle moodle 2.6.4
• moodle moodle 2.6.5
• moodle moodle 2.7.0
• moodle moodle 2.7.1
• moodle moodle 2.7.2
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-47050 Patch
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/17/11 openwall.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031215 www.securitytracker.com
- https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=275152 Vendor Advisory
- http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-47050 Patch
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/17/11 openwall.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031215 www.securitytracker.com
- https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=275152 Vendor Advisory