CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-1000135

Insufficient Session Expiration

Published: Nov 03, 2017 | Modified: Nov 15, 2017
CVSS 3.x
6.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.x
4 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Mahara 1.8 before 1.8.7 and 1.9 before 1.9.5 and 1.10 before 1.10.3 and 15.04 before 15.04.0 are vulnerable as logged-in users can stay logged in after the institution they belong to is suspended.

Weakness

According to WASC, “Insufficient Session Expiration is when a web site permits an attacker to reuse old session credentials or session IDs for authorization.”

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Mahara Mahara 1.8-rc1 (including) 1.8-rc1 (including)
Mahara Mahara 1.8-rc2 (including) 1.8-rc2 (including)
Mahara Mahara 1.8.0 (including) 1.8.0 (including)
Mahara Mahara 1.8.1 (including) 1.8.1 (including)
Mahara Mahara 1.8.2 (including) 1.8.2 (including)
Mahara Mahara 1.8.3 (including) 1.8.3 (including)
Mahara Mahara 1.8.4 (including) 1.8.4 (including)
Mahara Mahara 1.8.5 (including) 1.8.5 (including)
Mahara Mahara 1.8.6 (including) 1.8.6 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References