Medium
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 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.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2017-1000155
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:04 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 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.
osv:CVE-2017-1000155
Complete source record
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],
"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:34.915722469Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1600069"
],
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 433642,
"published_at": "2017-11-03T18:29:01.09+00:00"
}