PT-2014-2790 · Catalyst It · Mahara

Hugh Davenport · Published 2014-05-19 · Updated 2014-05-19 · CVE-2013-4430

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 prior to 1.5.12 Mahara versions 1.6.x prior to 1.6.7 Mahara versions 1.7.x prior to 1.7.3

Description The issue allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the Host header to lib/web.php. This is a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability.

Recommendations For Mahara versions prior to 1.5.12, update to version 1.5.12 or later. For Mahara versions 1.6.x prior to 1.6.7, update to version 1.6.7 or later. For Mahara versions 1.7.x prior to 1.7.3, update to version 1.7.3 or later.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2013-4430

Affected Products

Mahara

References · 7

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4430 · Security Note
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1175446 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/10/15/1 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/10/08/3 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-4430 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/10/16/7 · Note
• https://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=5754 · Note