High
Security advisory
Mahara 1.8 before 1.8.7 and 1.9 before 1.9.5 and 1.10 before 1.10.3 and 15.04 before 15.04.0 are vulnerable to server-side request forgery attacks as not all processes of curl redirects are checked against a white or black list. Employing SafeCurl will prevent issues.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2017-1000139
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 04:15 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Mahara 1.8 before 1.8.7 and 1.9 before 1.9.5 and 1.10 before 1.10.3 and 15.04 before 15.04.0 are vulnerable to server-side request forgery attacks as not all processes of curl redirects are checked against a white or black list. Employing SafeCurl will prevent issues.
osv:CVE-2017-1000139
Complete source record
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"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-1000139",
"method": "structured",
"payload": {
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"title": "CVE-2017-1000139",
"summary": "Mahara 1.8 before 1.8.7 and 1.9 before 1.9.5 and 1.10 before 1.10.3 and 15.04 before 15.04.0 are vulnerable to server-side request forgery attacks as not all processes of curl redirects are checked against a white or black list. Employing SafeCurl will prevent issues.",
"evidence": "osv:CVE-2017-1000139",
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"15.04-rc2",
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"15.04RC1_RELEASE",
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}
}
],
"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:15.912237058Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1397736"
],
"provider_metadata": {}
},
"related_cves": [
{
"value": "CVE-2017-1000139",
"evidence": "/id"
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"severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 429239,
"published_at": "2017-11-03T18:29:00.48+00:00"
}