VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2014-3552

medium
Published 2014-07-29 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.0

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here with source_tier=community-verified.

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
moodlemoodle2.4.0
moodlemoodle2.4.1
moodlemoodle2.4.2
moodlemoodle2.4.3
moodlemoodle2.4.4
moodlemoodle2.4.5
moodlemoodle2.4.6
moodlemoodle2.4.7
moodlemoodle2.4.8
moodlemoodle2.4.9
moodlemoodle2.4.10
moodlemoodle{"endIncluding":"2.3.11"}
moodlemoodle2.3.0
moodlemoodle2.3.1
moodlemoodle2.3.2
moodlemoodle2.3.3
moodlemoodle2.3.4
moodlemoodle2.3.5
moodlemoodle2.3.6
moodlemoodle2.3.7
moodlemoodle2.3.8
moodlemoodle2.3.9
moodlemoodle2.3.10
moodlemoodle2.5.0
moodlemoodle2.5.1
moodlemoodle2.5.2
moodlemoodle2.5.3
moodlemoodle2.5.4
moodlemoodle2.5.5
moodlemoodle2.5.6

References

CWEs

CWE-287

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.