CVE-2017-17455

medium

Description

Mahara 16.10 before 16.10.7, 17.04 before 17.04.5, and 17.10 before 17.10.2 are vulnerable to being forced, via a man-in-the-middle attack, to interact with Mahara on the HTTP protocol rather than HTTPS even when an SSL certificate is present.

References

https://reviews.mahara.org/#/c/8312/

https://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=8150

https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1734767

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2018-02-20

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N