CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-14163

8.8 HIGH Published 2017-10-31 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-10-31
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.5 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-384

Description

An issue was discovered in Mahara before 15.04.14, 16.x before 16.04.8, 16.10.x before 16.10.5, and 17.x before 17.04.3. When one closes the browser without logging out of Mahara, the value in the usr_session table is not removed. If someone were to open a browser, visit the Mahara site, and adjust the 'mahara' cookie to the old value, they can get 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 15.04.10 • mahara mahara 15.04.11 • mahara mahara 15.04.12 • mahara mahara 15.04.13 • 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 16.04.4 • mahara mahara 16.04.5 • mahara mahara 16.04.6 • mahara mahara 16.04.7 • mahara mahara 16.10 • mahara mahara 16.10.0 • mahara mahara 16.10.1 • mahara mahara 16.10.2 • mahara mahara 16.10.3 • mahara mahara 16.10.4 • mahara mahara 17.04 • mahara mahara 17.04.0 • mahara mahara 17.04.1 • mahara mahara 17.04.2

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-384 Session Fixation weakness

References