A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Mahara up to 1.8.5/1.9.3/1.10.0/15.03.x (Content Management System). This affects some unknown processing of the component Session Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a session expiration vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-613. According to WASC, "Insufficient Session Expiration is when a web site permits an attacker to reuse old session credentials or session IDs for authorization." This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Mahara 1.8 before 1.8.6 and 1.9 before 1.9.4 and 1.10 before 1.10.1 and 15.04 before 15.04.0 are vulnerable to old sessions not being invalidated after a password change.

The bug was discovered 04/17/2015. The weakness was released 11/03/2017 (Website). The advisory is shared at bugs.launchpad.net. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2017-1000136 since 11/02/2017. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. Required for exploitation is a authentication. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 931 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

Upgrading to version 1.8.6, 1.9.4, 1.10.1 or 15.04.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at 109105, 109104, 109103 and 109102.

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• Content Management System

Name

• Mahara

Version

• 1.0
• 1.1
• 1.2
• 1.3
• 1.4
• 1.5
• 1.6
• 1.7
• 1.8
• 1.8.0
• 1.8.1
• 1.8.2
• 1.8.3
• 1.8.4
• 1.8.5
• 1.9
• 1.9.0
• 1.9.1
• 1.9.2
• 1.9.3
• 1.10
• 15.03

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• open-source

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