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Improper Authentication

CVE-2021-40693

Medium
6.5/10

Summary

An authentication bypass risk was identified in the external database authentication functionality, due to a type juggling vulnerability. This issue affects the moodle versions prior to 3.9.10, 3.10.x prior to 3.10.7, and 3.11.x prior to 3.11.3.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • NONE
  • NONE

CWE-287 - Improper Authentication

Improper (or broken) authentication attacks are widespread, and have accounted for many of the worst data breaches in recent years. Improper authentication attacks are a class of vulnerabilities where an attacker impersonates a legitimate user by exploiting weaknesses in either session management or credential management to gain access to the user’s account. This can result in disclosure of sensitive information, and can lead to system compromise, theft, identity theft, and fraud.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published