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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

Published

2025-06-03 14:59

Modified

2025-06-03 15:16

Summary

Moodle: lesson activity password bypass through php loose comparison

Details

A flaw was found in Moodle. When restricting access to a lesson activity with a password, certain passwords could be bypassed or less secure due to a loose comparison in the password-checking logic. This issue only affected passwords set to "magic hash" values.

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              "fixed": "4.2.10"
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  },
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  "id": "BIT-moodle-2024-45691",
  "modified": "2025-06-03T15:16:07.023Z",
  "published": "2025-06-03T14:59:09.259Z",
  "references": [
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      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2309940"
    },
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    },
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    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.6.2",
  "summary": "Moodle: lesson activity password bypass through php loose comparison"
}

CVE-2024-45691 (GCVE-0-2024-45691)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-11-20 10:25 – Updated: 2024-11-20 19:17

Title

Moodle: lesson activity password bypass through php loose comparison

Summary

Severity ?

No CVSS data available.

CWE

CWE-noinfo Not enough information

Assigner

fedora

References

URL

Tags

	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2309940	issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHAT
	https://moodle.org/security/

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
			Affected: 0 , < 4.1.13 (semver) Affected: 4.2 , < 4.2.10 (semver) Affected: 4.3 , < 4.3.7 (semver) Affected: 4.4 , < 4.4.3 (semver)

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              "confidentialityImpact": "LOW",
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              "privilegesRequired": "LOW",
              "scope": "UNCHANGED",
              "userInteraction": "NONE",
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Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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CVE-2024-45691 (GCVE-0-2024-45691)

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