Moodle: lesson activity password bypass through php loose co… (CVE-2024-45691)

Summary

Moodle: lesson activity password bypass through php loose comparison

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) NVD GitHub Advisory OSV

Affected packages

Bitnami moodle

[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"4.1.13"},{"introduced":"4.2.0"},{"fixed":"4.2.10"},{"introduced":"4.3.0"},{"fixed":"4.3.7"},{"introduced":"4.4.0"},{"fixed":"4.4.3"}]}]

References

advisory nvd.nist.gov
advisory github.com
package github.com
report bugzilla.redhat.com
web moodle.org