Mahara up to 1.9.7/1.10.5/15.04.2 cross-site request forgery

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability identified as problematic has been detected in Mahara up to 1.9.7/1.10.5/15.04.2. This affects an unknown part. This manipulation causes cross-site request forgery. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2017-1000147. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available. You should upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Mahara up to 1.9.7/1.10.5/15.04.2 (Content Management System) and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is some unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross-site request forgery vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-352. The web application does not, or can not, sufficiently verify whether a well-formed, valid, consistent request was intentionally provided by the user who submitted the request. As an impact it is known to affect integrity. The summary by CVE is:

Mahara 1.9 before 1.9.8 and 1.10 before 1.10.6 and 15.04 before 15.04.3 are vulnerable to perform a cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attack on the uploader contained in Mahara's filebrowser widget. This could allow an attacker to trick a Mahara user into unknowingly uploading malicious files into their Mahara account.

The bug was discovered 06/28/2017. The weakness was released 11/03/2017 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at bugs.launchpad.net. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2017-1000147 since 11/02/2017. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 128 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

Upgrading to version 1.9.8, 1.10.6 or 15.04.3 eliminates this vulnerability.

Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at VDB-109115, VDB-109114, VDB-109113 and VDB-109112. Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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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
• 1.9.7
• 1.10.0
• 1.10.1
• 1.10.2
• 1.10.3
• 1.10.4
• 1.10.5
• 15.04.0
• 15.04.1
• 15.04.2

License

• open-source

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