CVE-2014-3552

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-07-29 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-287

Description

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.

Affected products

Moodle: through 2.3.11; 2.4.0, 2.4.1, 2.4.2, 2.4.3, 2.4.4, 2.4.5 (+23)

References

http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=refs%2Fheads%2FMOODLE_25_STABLE&st=commit&s=MDL-45485
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/07/21/1
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=264261
http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=refs%2Fheads%2FMOODLE_25_STABLE&st=commit&s=MDL-45485
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/07/21/1
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=264261

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