PT-2017-10848 · Catalyst It · Mahara

Ngson2000 + 1 · Published 2017-11-03 · Updated 2019-10-03 · CVE-2017-1000148

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

8.8

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mahara versions 15.04 through 15.04.7 Mahara versions 15.10 through 15.10.3 Mahara versions 16.04 through 16.04.1

Description The issue allows for PHP code execution. It occurs because Mahara passes portions of the XML through the PHP unserialize() function when importing a skin from an XML file.

Recommendations For Mahara versions 15.04 through 15.04.7, update to version 15.04.8 or later. For Mahara versions 15.10 through 15.10.3, update to version 15.10.4 or later. For Mahara versions 16.04 through 16.04.1, update to version 16.04.2 or later.

Fix

Deserialization of Untrusted Data

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-502

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-1000148

Affected Products

Mahara

References · 4

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-1000148 · Security Note
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1508684 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-1000148 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-1000148 · Note