Description
Mahara 17.04 before 17.04.8 and 17.10 before 17.10.5 and 18.04 before 18.04.1 can be used as medium to transmit viruses by placing infected files into a Leap2A archive and uploading that to Mahara. In contrast to other ZIP files that are uploaded, ClamAV (when activated) does not check Leap2A archives for viruses, allowing malicious files to be available for download. While files cannot be executed on Mahara itself, Mahara can be used to transfer such files to user computers.
References (2)
Core 2
Core References
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=8270
Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1770535
Scores
CVSS v3
7.5
EPSS
0.0018
EPSS Percentile
38.7%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Details
CWE
CWE-434
Status
published
Products (2)
mahara/mahara
18.04.0
mahara/mahara
17.04.0 - 17.04.8
Published
Jun 01, 2018
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026