Boletines de Vulnerabilidades

MSA-24-0044: Lesson activity password bypass through PHP loose comparison

   
Software afectado PHP
 
by Michael Hawkins. When restricting access to a Lesson activity with a password, certain passwords could be bypassed/less secure due to a loose comparison in the password checking logic.Note: this only affected passwords that are set to "magic hash" values. These are certain values where a loose comparison in the code can result in multiple values "matching" the password, instead of the expected behaviour that only an exact match for the password will be

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