PT-2021-22978 · Mahara · Mahara

Saksham Anand · Published 2021-11-03 · Updated 2021-11-05 · CVE-2021-40848

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.8

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mahara versions prior to 20.04.5 Mahara versions prior to 20.10.3 Mahara versions prior to 21.04.2 Mahara versions prior to 21.10.0

Description The issue allows exported CSV files to contain characters that a spreadsheet program could interpret as a command, leading to the execution of a malicious string locally on a device. This is known as CSV injection.

Recommendations For versions prior to 20.04.5, update to version 20.04.5 or later. For versions prior to 20.10.3, update to version 20.10.3 or later. For versions prior to 21.04.2, update to version 21.04.2 or later. For versions prior to 21.10.0, update to version 21.10.0 or later.

Fix

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-1236

Related Identifiers

CVE-2021-40848

Affected Products

Mahara

References · 6

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-40848 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1930471 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=8950 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-40848 · Security Note
• https://t.me/cibsecurity/31708 · Telegram Post
• https://t.me/cvenotify/23032 · Telegram Post