PT-2012-3898 · Catalyst It · Mahara

Mike Haworth · Published 2012-11-24 · Updated 2024-02-15 · CVE-2012-2239

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.4

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mahara versions 1.4.x through 1.4.3 Mahara versions 1.5.x through 1.5.2

Description The issue allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files or create TCP connections via an XML external entity (XXE) injection attack. This can be demonstrated by reading the config.php file.

Recommendations For Mahara versions 1.4.x through 1.4.3, update to version 1.4.4 or later. For Mahara versions 1.5.x through 1.5.2, update to version 1.5.3 or later.

Fix

XXE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-611

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-2239

DSA-2591-1

Affected Products

Mahara

References · 5

• https://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=4869 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1047111 · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-2239 · Security Note
• http://debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2591 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-2239 · Note