VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-2351

medium
Published 2012-07-12 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.0

Description

The default configuration of the auth/saml plugin in Mahara before 1.4.2 sets the "Match username attribute to Remote username" option to false, which allows remote SAML IdP servers to spoof users of other SAML IdP servers by using the same internal username.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debian6.0affected

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
maharamahara{"endIncluding":"1.4.1"}
maharamahara0.9.0
maharamahara0.9.1
maharamahara0.9.2
maharamahara1.0.0
maharamahara1.0.1
maharamahara1.0.2
maharamahara1.0.3
maharamahara1.0.4
maharamahara1.0.5
maharamahara1.0.6
maharamahara1.0.7
maharamahara1.0.8
maharamahara1.0.9
maharamahara1.0.10
maharamahara1.0.11
maharamahara1.0.12
maharamahara1.0.13
maharamahara1.0.14
maharamahara1.0.15
maharamahara1.1
maharamahara1.1.0
maharamahara1.1.1
maharamahara1.1.2
maharamahara1.1.3
maharamahara1.1.4
maharamahara1.1.5
maharamahara1.1.6
maharamahara1.1.7
maharamahara1.1.8
maharamahara1.1.9
maharamahara1.2.0
maharamahara1.2.1
maharamahara1.2.2
maharamahara1.2.3
maharamahara1.2.4
maharamahara1.2.5
maharamahara1.2.6
maharamahara1.3.0
maharamahara1.3.1
maharamahara1.3.2
maharamahara1.3.3
maharamahara1.3.4
maharamahara1.3.5
maharamahara1.3.6
maharamahara1.3.7
maharamahara1.3.8
maharamahara1.4
maharamahara1.4.0

References

CWEs

CWE-16 CWE-284 CWE-287

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