Medium
Security advisory
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.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2018-11565
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 05:39 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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": [
{
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"type": "GIT",
"events": [
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"introduced": "17.04.0"
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{
"fixed": "17.04.8"
}
],
"source": "CPE_RANGE"
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{
"cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:mahara:mahara:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"range": [
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"source": "CPE_RANGE"
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{
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"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"
}