Mahara up to 1.9.6/1.10.4/15.04.1 Comment access control

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Mahara up to 1.9.6/1.10.4/15.04.1. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Comment Handler. The manipulation leads to access control. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2017-1000145. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Mahara up to 1.9.6/1.10.4/15.04.1 (Content Management System). This issue affects an unknown function of the component Comment Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-284. The product does not restrict or incorrectly restricts access to a resource from an unauthorized actor. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Mahara 1.9 before 1.9.7 and 1.10 before 1.10.5 and 15.04 before 15.04.2 are vulnerable to anonymous comments being able to be placed on artefact detail pages even when the site administrator had disallowed anonymous comments.

The bug was discovered 07/10/2015. The weakness was shared 11/03/2017 (Website). The advisory is shared at bugs.launchpad.net. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2017-1000145 since 11/02/2017. The attack may be initiated remotely. The successful exploitation requires a simple authentication. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1068 for this issue.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 847 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

Upgrading to version 1.9.7, 1.10.5 or 15.04.2 eliminates this vulnerability.

The entries VDB-109113, VDB-109112, VDB-109111 and VDB-109110 are related to this item. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Type

• Content Management System

Name

• Mahara

Version

• 1.9.0
• 1.9.1
• 1.9.2
• 1.9.3
• 1.9.4
• 1.9.5
• 1.9.6
• 1.10.0
• 1.10.1
• 1.10.2
• 1.10.3
• 1.10.4
• 15.04.0
• 15.04.1

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• open-source

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