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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2018-11565

Mahara 17.04 before 17.04.8 and 17.10 before 17.10.5 and 18.04 before 18.04.1 are vulnerable to mentioning the usernames that are already taken by people registered in the system rather than masking that information.

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CVE-2018-11565
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1 Nov 2026, 05:39 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2018-11565

core-osv · Original source

Published 30 May 2018, 21:29 UTC

Mahara 17.04 before 17.04.8 and 17.10 before 17.10.5 and 18.04 before 18.04.1 are vulnerable to mentioning the usernames that are already taken by people registered in the system rather than masking that information.

osv:CVE-2018-11565
Complete source record
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  "id": "123c8ea26701a1829c619627305ace6af87d1d3c66a0e5081f8713f103940128",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-11565",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2018-11565",
    "summary": "Mahara 17.04 before 17.04.8 and 17.10 before 17.10.5 and 18.04 before 18.04.1 are vulnerable to mentioning the usernames that are already taken by people registered in the system rather than masking that information.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2018-11565",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2018-11565",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2018-11565"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/maharaproject/mahara",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "c1b8e4e448228b12a674c205a7288389613271e7"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "4731adeec17713177b730a94b9191c0725339da2"
                },
                {
                  "introduced": "7e3e132425fc023eb85e66717284540d80bdacd1"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "101db724b6cdbbb6ab5c4f8dfe45274e0f437a21"
                },
                {
                  "introduced": "2a17a9a771a9016f78bcf62b9150ca6283dc449b"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "2a17a9a771a9016f78bcf62b9150ca6283dc449b"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:mahara:mahara:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "17.04.0"
                      },
                      {
                        "fixed": "17.04.8"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  },
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:mahara:mahara:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "17.10.0"
                      },
                      {
                        "fixed": "17.10.5"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  },
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:mahara:mahara:18.04.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "18.04.0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "18.04.0"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "18.04.0",
            "17.10.4_RELEASE",
            "17.04.7_RELEASE",
            "18.04.0_RELEASE",
            "17.04.2_RELEASE",
            "17.10.3_RELEASE",
            "17.04.6_RELEASE",
            "17.10.2_RELEASE",
            "17.04.5_RELEASE",
            "17.10.1_RELEASE",
            "17.04.4_RELEASE",
            "17.10.0_RELEASE",
            "17.04.3_RELEASE",
            "17.04.1_RELEASE",
            "17.04.0_RELEASE"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-11565.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:31.991835002Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=8271",
        "https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1772774"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2018-11565",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 432920,
  "published_at": "2018-05-30T21:29:00.69+00:00"
}