PT-2018-6517 · Catalyst It · Mahara

Kirtikumar Anandrao Ramchandani · Published 2018-02-20 · Updated 2018-03-16 · CVE-2017-17455

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.9

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Mahara versions 16.10 through 16.10.6 Mahara versions 17.04 through 17.04.4 Mahara versions 17.10 through 17.10.1

Description: The issue allows an attacker to force interaction with Mahara over the HTTP protocol instead of HTTPS, even when an SSL certificate is present, via a man-in-the-middle attack.

Recommendations: For Mahara versions 16.10 through 16.10.6, update to version 16.10.7 or later. For Mahara versions 17.04 through 17.04.4, update to version 17.04.5 or later. For Mahara versions 17.10 through 17.10.1, update to version 17.10.2 or later.

Fix

Improper Certificate Validation

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-295

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-17455

Affected Products

Mahara

References · 6

• https://reviews.mahara.org/#/c/8312 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=8150 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-17455 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-17455 · Security Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-17455 · Note
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1734767 · Note