Improper Authentication Affecting moodle/moodle package, versions <3.9.10>=3.10.0, <3.10.7>=3.11.0, <3.11.3


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.08% (36th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PHP-MOODLEMOODLE-2359048
  • published23 Jan 2022
  • disclosed23 Jan 2022
  • creditRobin Peraglie, Johannes Moritz

Introduced: 23 Jan 2022

CVE-2021-40691  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-287  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade moodle/moodle to version 3.9.10, 3.10.7, 3.11.3 or higher.

Overview

moodle/moodle is a learning platform.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Authentication. A session hijack risk was identified in the Shibboleth authentication plugin, in which sessions weren't killed after logout.

CVSS Scores

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