CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-17455
5.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-02-20
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 5.9 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-295
Description
Mahara 16.10 before 16.10.7, 17.04 before 17.04.5, and 17.10 before 17.10.2 are vulnerable to being forced, via a man-in-the-middle attack, to interact with Mahara on the HTTP protocol rather than HTTPS even when an SSL certificate is present.
Affected configurations
• mahara mahara (>= 16.10.0 < 16.10.7)
• mahara mahara (>= 17.04.0 < 17.04.5)
• mahara mahara (>= 17.10.0 < 17.10.2)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-295 Improper Certificate Validation weakness
References
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1734767 Third Party Advisory
- https://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=8150 Vendor Advisory
- https://reviews.mahara.org/#/c/8312/ Vendor Advisory
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1734767 Third Party Advisory
- https://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=8150 Vendor Advisory
- https://reviews.mahara.org/#/c/8312/ Vendor Advisory