CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-1000153
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-11-03
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-732
Description
Mahara 15.04 before 15.04.10 and 15.10 before 15.10.6 and 16.04 before 16.04.4 are vulnerable to incorrect access control after the password reset link is sent via email and then user changes default email, Mahara fails to invalidate old link.Consequently the link in email can be used to gain access to the user's account.
Affected configurations
• mahara mahara 15.04
• mahara mahara 15.04.0
• mahara mahara 15.04.1
• mahara mahara 15.04.2
• mahara mahara 15.04.3
• mahara mahara 15.04.4
• mahara mahara 15.04.5
• mahara mahara 15.04.6
• mahara mahara 15.04.7
• mahara mahara 15.04.8
• mahara mahara 15.04.9
• mahara mahara 16.04
• mahara mahara 16.04.0
• mahara mahara 16.04.1
• mahara mahara 16.04.2
• mahara mahara 16.04.3
• mahara mahara 15.10.0
• mahara mahara 15.10.1
• mahara mahara 15.10.2
• mahara mahara 15.10.3
• mahara mahara 15.10.4
• mahara mahara 15.10.5
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource weakness
References
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1577251 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1577251 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory