VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2017-1000155

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Published 2017-11-03 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
4.3
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
4.3

Description

Mahara 15.04 before 15.04.8 and 15.10 before 15.10.4 and 16.04 before 16.04.2 are vulnerable to profile pictures being accessed without any access control checks consequently allowing any of a user's uploaded profile pictures to be viewable by anyone, whether or not they were currently selected as the "default" or used in any pages.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
53%
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.

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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
maharamahara16.04
maharamahara16.04.0
maharamahara16.04.1
maharamahara15.10.0
maharamahara15.10.1
maharamahara15.10.2
maharamahara15.10.3

References

CWEs

CWE-200

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

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