Bug 2309940 (CVE-2024-45691)

Summary: CVE-2024-45691 moodle: Lesson activity password bypass through PHP loose comparison
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A flaw was found in Moodle. When restricting access to a lesson activity with a password, certain passwords could be bypassed or less secure due to a loose comparison in the password-checking logic. This issue only affected passwords set to "magic hash" values.
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Deadline: 2024-09-09   

Description OSIDB Bzimport 2024-09-04 22:14:10 UTC 
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 accepted).