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An issue was discovered in Mahara before 15.04.14, 16.x before 16.04.8, 16.10.x before 16.10.5, and 17.x before 17.04.3

Published Oct 31, 2017

Description

An issue was discovered in Mahara before 15.04.14, 16.x before 16.04.8, 16.10.x before 16.10.5, and 17.x before 17.04.3. When one closes the browser without logging out of Mahara, the value in the usr_session table is not removed. If someone were to open a browser, visit the Mahara site, and adjust the 'mahara' cookie to the old value, they can get access to the user's account.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (1)

References (1)

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Oct 31, 2017
Updated Aug 5, 2024
Reserved Sep 6, 2017
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a