Bug 2332787 (CVE-2024-55648)

Summary: CVE-2024-55648 moodle: Potential denial of service risk due to guest sessions' longer timeout period
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A flaw has been identified in Moodle, where guest user sessions were given a longer timeout than authenticated users, which could result in an elevated denial of service risk.
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2024-12-17 12:03:38 UTC 
Guest user sessions were given a longer timeout than authenticated users, which could result in an elevated denial of service risk.

Versions affected: 4.5, 4.4 to 4.4.4, 4.3 to 4.3.8, 4.1 to 4.1.14 and earlier unsupported versions
Versions fixed: 4.5.1, 4.4.5, 4.3.9 and 4.1.15