VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2017-1000140

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Published 2017-11-03 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
5.4
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.4

Description

Mahara 1.8 before 1.8.7 and 1.9 before 1.9.5 and 1.10 before 1.10.3 and 15.04 before 15.04.0 are vulnerable to a maliciously created .xml file that can have its code executed when user tries to download the file.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
64%
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
maharamahara1.8
maharamahara1.8.0
maharamahara1.8.1
maharamahara1.8.2
maharamahara1.8.3
maharamahara1.8.4
maharamahara1.8.5
maharamahara1.8.6
maharamahara1.9
maharamahara1.9.0
maharamahara1.9.1
maharamahara1.9.2
maharamahara1.9.3
maharamahara1.9.4
maharamahara1.10
maharamahara1.10.0
maharamahara1.10.1
maharamahara1.10.2
maharamahara15.04

References

CWEs

CWE-79

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

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