CVE-2017-17455 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity High

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00135.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Mahara	Mahara

Configuration 1 [-]

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2017-8619	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.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1734767
https://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=8150
https://reviews.mahara.org/#/c/8312/

History

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2018-02-20T22:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T20:51:31.407Z

Reserved: 2017-12-06T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-17455

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-02-20T22:29:00.283

Modified: 2024-11-21T03:17:57.877

Link: CVE-2017-17455

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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