Mahara up to 15.04.7/15.10.3/16.04.1 Profile Picture information disclosure

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Mahara up to 15.04.7/15.10.3/16.04.1 and classified as problematic. Affected is an unknown function of the component Profile Picture Handler. Performing a manipulation results in information disclosure. This vulnerability is cataloged as CVE-2017-1000155. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available. The affected component should be upgraded.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Mahara up to 15.04.7/15.10.3/16.04.1 (Content Management System). This affects an unknown part of the component Profile Picture Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

Mahara 15.04 before 15.04.8 and 15.10 before 15.10.4 and 16.04 before 16.04.2 are vulnerable to profile pictures being accessed without any access control checks consequently allowing any of a user's uploaded profile pictures to be viewable by anyone, whether or not they were currently selected as the "default" or used in any pages.

The bug was discovered 10/21/2016. The weakness was shared 11/03/2017 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at bugs.launchpad.net. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2017-1000155 since 11/02/2017. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1592 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 378 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

Upgrading to version 15.04.7, 15.10.4 or 16.04.2 eliminates this vulnerability.

The entries VDB-109121, VDB-109120, VDB-109118 and VDB-109117 are related to this item. Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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Type

• Content Management System

Name

• Mahara

Version

• 15.04.0
• 15.04.1
• 15.04.2
• 15.04.3
• 15.04.4
• 15.04.5
• 15.04.6
• 15.04.7
• 15.10.0
• 15.10.1
• 15.10.2
• 15.10.3
• 16.04.0
• 16.04.1

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• open-source

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