Not a U.S. government website. NDD is an independent vulnerability database by Volerion and is not affiliated with or endorsed by NIST or NVD.
VOLERION
Volerion Security Research

NOT DEFERRED DATABASE

VULNERABILITIES

CVE-2017-17455 Details

Description

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST: [email protected]CVSS-B:5.9 MEDIUMVector:CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

By selecting these links, you will be leaving this site. These are references gathered from the official CVE record and are not endorsed by Volerion.

URLSource(s)Tag(s)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1734767 CVEThird Party Advisory
https://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=8150 CVEVendor Advisory
https://reviews.mahara.org/#/c/8312/ CVEVendor Advisory
https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1734767 [email protected]Third Party Advisory
https://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=8150 [email protected]Vendor Advisory

see all 6 references

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-IDCWE NameSource
CWE-295Improper Certificate Validation[email protected]

Affected Products

ProductVersions
mahara mahara
>= 16.10.0, < 16.10.7
>= 17.04.0, < 17.04.5
>= 17.10.0, < 17.10.2

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:a:mahara:mahara:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.

Change History

4 change records found show changes

QUICK INFO

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2017-17455
NVD Published Date:
Feb 20, 2018
NVD Last Modified:
Jun 17, 2026
Source:
[email protected]
CVE-2017-17455 Details - Not Deferred