VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2017-1000156

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Published 2017-11-03 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.5

Description

Mahara 15.04 before 15.04.9 and 15.10 before 15.10.5 and 16.04 before 16.04.3 are vulnerable to a group's configuration page being editable by any group member even when they didn't have the admin role.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here with source_tier=community-verified.

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
maharamahara15.04
maharamahara15.04.0
maharamahara15.04.1
maharamahara15.04.2
maharamahara15.04.3
maharamahara15.04.4
maharamahara15.04.5
maharamahara15.04.6
maharamahara15.04.7
maharamahara15.04.8
maharamahara16.04
maharamahara16.04.0
maharamahara16.04.1
maharamahara16.04.2
maharamahara15.10.0
maharamahara15.10.1
maharamahara15.10.2
maharamahara15.10.3
maharamahara15.10.4

References

CWEs

CWE-269

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.