CVE-2017-17455

Severity Score

5.9

*CVSS v3

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

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.

Mahara 16.10 en versiones anteriores a la 16.10.7, versiones 17.04 anteriores a la 17.04.5 y versiones 17.10 anteriores a la 17.10.2 es vulnerable a ser forzado, mediante un ataque Man-in-the-Middle (MitM), a interactuar con Mahara en el protocolo HTTP en lugar de HTTPS, incluso auque haya un certificado SSL.

*Credits: N/A

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

High

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

None

Availability

None

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Medium

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

Partial

Integrity

None

Availability

None

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2017-12-06 CVE Reserved
2018-02-20 CVE Published
2023-03-08 EPSS Updated
2024-08-05 CVE Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date
---------- First Exploit

CWE

CWE-295: Improper Certificate Validation

CAPEC

References (3)

URL	Tag	Source
https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1734767	Third Party Advisory

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC
https://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=8150	2018-03-16
https://reviews.mahara.org/#/c/8312	2018-03-16

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Mahara Search vendor "Mahara"		Mahara Search vendor "Mahara" for product "Mahara"				>= 16.10.0 < 16.10.7 Search vendor "Mahara" for product "Mahara" and version " >= 16.10.0 < 16.10.7"		-		Affected
Mahara Search vendor "Mahara"		Mahara Search vendor "Mahara" for product "Mahara"				>= 17.04.0 < 17.04.5 Search vendor "Mahara" for product "Mahara" and version " >= 17.04.0 < 17.04.5"		-		Affected
Mahara Search vendor "Mahara"		Mahara Search vendor "Mahara" for product "Mahara"				>= 17.10.0 < 17.10.2 Search vendor "Mahara" for product "Mahara" and version " >= 17.10.0 < 17.10.2"		-		Affected