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Moodle: Improper Authentication (CVE-2021-40693)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:C/A:N)
Published
Sep 29, 2022
Added
Oct 5, 2022
Modified
May 7, 2026

Description

An authentication bypass risk was identified in the external database authentication functionality, due to a type juggling vulnerability.

Solution

moodle-upgrade-latest
Title
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