Auth bypass in Moodle

CVE-2014-3552

The Shibboleth authentication plugin in auth/shibboleth/index.php in Moodle through 2.3.11, 2.4.x before 2.4.11, and 2.5.x before 2.5.7 does not check whether a session ID is empty, which allows remote authenticated users to hijack sessions via crafted plugin interaction.

Vulnerability class: Broken Authentication

EPSS: 0.012 (64.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Moodle — versions 2.4.0, 2.4.1, 2.4.2
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-287 — Improper Authentication

References

secalert@redhat.com (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST)
secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)
secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Patch)