Critical
Security advisory
Mahara 15.04 before 15.04.8 and 15.10 before 15.10.4 and 16.04 before 16.04.2 are vulnerable to some authentication methods, which do not use Mahara's built-in login form, still allowing users to log in even if their institution was expired or suspended.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2017-1000154
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:55 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Mahara 15.04 before 15.04.8 and 15.10 before 15.10.4 and 16.04 before 16.04.2 are vulnerable to some authentication methods, which do not use Mahara's built-in login form, still allowing users to log in even if their institution was expired or suspended.
osv:CVE-2017-1000154
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:46.380416885Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1580399"
],
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"published_at": "2017-11-03T18:29:01.057+00:00"
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