CVE-2021-36394 (GCVE-0-2021-36394)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-03-06 00:00 – Updated: 2025-03-06 15:44
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Summary
In Moodle, a remote code execution risk was identified in the Shibboleth authentication plugin.
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Vendor Product Version
n/a Moodle Affected: 3.11, 3.10 to 3.10.4, 3.9 to 3.9.7 and earlier unsupported versions
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