Medium
Security advisory
An issue was discovered in Mahara before 18.10.0. It mishandled user requests that could discontinue a user's ability to maintain their own account (changing username, changing primary email address, deleting account). The correct behavior was to either prompt them for their password and/or send a warning to their primary email address.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2017-1000141
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 07:37 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in Mahara before 18.10.0. It mishandled user requests that could discontinue a user's ability to maintain their own account (changing username, changing primary email address, deleting account). The correct behavior was to either prompt them for their password and/or send a warning to their primary email address.
osv:CVE-2017-1000141
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:55.793850106Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1422492"
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 438505,
"published_at": "2018-01-30T19:29:00.213+00:00"
}