VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2013-4432

medium
Published 2014-05-19 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
4.0

Description

Mahara before 1.5.13, 1.6.x before 1.6.8, and 1.7.x before 1.7.4 does not properly restrict access to folders, which allows remote authenticated users to read arbitrary folders (1) by leveraging an active folder tab loaded before permissions were removed or (2) via the folder parameter to artefact/file/groupfiles.php.

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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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
maharamahara{"endIncluding":"1.5.12"}
maharamahara1.5
maharamahara1.5.0
maharamahara1.5.1
maharamahara1.5.2
maharamahara1.5.3
maharamahara1.5.4
maharamahara1.5.6
maharamahara1.5.7
maharamahara1.5.8
maharamahara1.5.9
maharamahara1.5.10
maharamahara1.5.11
maharamahara1.6.0
maharamahara1.6.1
maharamahara1.6.2
maharamahara1.6.3
maharamahara1.6.4
maharamahara1.6.5
maharamahara1.6.6
maharamahara1.6.7
maharamahara1.7.
maharamahara1.7.0
maharamahara1.7.1
maharamahara1.7.2
maharamahara1.7.3

References

CWEs

CWE-264

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

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