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.
History

Mon, 02 Jun 2025 16:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Moodle
Moodle moodle
Weaknesses NVD-CWE-noinfo
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:moodle:moodle:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Moodle
Moodle moodle

Wed, 20 Nov 2024 20:15:00 +0000

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Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 5.4, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N'}

ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Wed, 20 Nov 2024 10:30:00 +0000

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Description 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.
Title Moodle: lesson activity password bypass through php loose comparison
References

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: fedora

Published: 2024-11-20T10:25:30.380Z

Updated: 2024-11-20T19:17:19.480Z

Reserved: 2024-09-04T22:00:30.976Z

Link: CVE-2024-45691

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-11-20T19:17:11.524Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2024-11-20T11:15:05.490

Modified: 2025-06-02T15:35:23.890

Link: CVE-2024-45691

cve-icon Redhat

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