FKIE_CVE-2017-17455

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2018-02-20 22:29 - Updated: 2026-06-17 01:10
Severity
5.9 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Summary
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1734767Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=8150Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://reviews.mahara.org/#/c/8312/Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1734767Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=8150Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://reviews.mahara.org/#/c/8312/Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
mahara mahara *
mahara mahara *
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