PT-2014-2791 · Catalyst It · Mahara

Aaron Wells + 1 · Published 2014-05-19 · Updated 2014-05-19 · CVE-2013-4431

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.5

Medium

Base vector

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

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 authenticated users to modify arbitrary blocks via the block id in an edit request, due to improper access prevention to blocks.

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

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-264

Related Identifiers

CVE-2013-4431

Affected Products

Mahara

References · 7

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4431 · Security Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/10/15/1 · Note
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1233500 · Note
• https://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=5753 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/10/08/3 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/10/16/7 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-4431 · Note