PT-2012-6228 · Catalyst It · Mahara

Published 2012-11-24 · Updated 2013-02-08 · CVE-2012-6037

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mahara versions 1.2, 1.4.x through 1.4.4, 1.5.x through 1.5.3

Description The issue allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a CSV header with unknown fields, which are not properly handled in error messages in the bulk user, group, and group member upload capabilities.

Recommendations For Mahara version 1.2, update to a version after 1.2 to mitigate the risk. For Mahara versions 1.4.x through 1.4.4, update to version 1.4.5 or later. For Mahara versions 1.5.x through 1.5.3, update to version 1.5.4 or later.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-6037

DSA-2591-1

Affected Products

Mahara

References · 5

• https://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=4937 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-6037 · Security Note
• http://debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2591 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1063480 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-6037 · Note