CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-17455

Improper Certificate Validation

Published: Feb 20, 2018 | Modified: Mar 16, 2018
CVSS 3.x
5.9
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.x
4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

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.

Weakness

The product does not validate, or incorrectly validates, a certificate.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Mahara Mahara 16.10.0 (including) 16.10.7 (excluding)
Mahara Mahara 17.04.0 (including) 17.04.5 (excluding)
Mahara Mahara 17.10.0 (including) 17.10.2 (excluding)

Potential Mitigations

References