{"id":"CVE-2017-17455","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2017-17455","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T19:02:17.382Z","title":"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.","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.","published":"2018-02-20T22:29:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T01:10:49.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":5.9,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-295"],"affected":["mahara/mahara"],"epss":{"score":0.00605,"percentile":0.48751,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.60%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1734767","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=8150","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://reviews.mahara.org/#/c/8312/","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1734767","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=8150","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://reviews.mahara.org/#/c/8312/","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-17455","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}