PT-2014-5390 · Moodle · Moodle

Colin Campbell · Published 2014-07-29 · Updated 2020-12-01 · CVE-2014-3552

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Moodle versions prior to 2.3.11 Moodle versions 2.4.x prior to 2.4.11 Moodle versions 2.5.x prior to 2.5.7

Description The issue concerns the Shibboleth authentication plugin in Moodle, which fails to check if a session ID is empty. This allows remote authenticated users to hijack sessions through crafted plugin interaction.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2.3.11, update to version 2.3.11 or later. For versions 2.4.x prior to 2.4.11, update to version 2.4.11 or later. For versions 2.5.x prior to 2.5.7, update to version 2.5.7 or later.

Fix

Improper Authentication

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-287

Related Identifiers

CVE-2014-3552

Affected Products

Moodle

References · 5

• http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=refs%2Fheads%2FMOODLE_25_STABLE&st=commit&s=MDL-45485 · Patch
• https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=264261 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-3552 · Security Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-3552 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/07/21/1 · Note