Mahara Security Update Fixes SQL Injection and Security Bypass Issues


Description   Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in Mahara, which could be exploited by attackers or malicious users to bypass security restrictions or inject arbitrary SQL requests. These issues are caused by input and access validation errors in smarty and other unspecified scripts, which could allow attackers to bypass security checks or conduct SQL injections.
     
Vulnerable Products   Vulnerable Software:
Mahara versions prior to 1.2.4Mahara versions prior to 1.1.8Mahara versions prior to 1.0.14
     
Solution   Upgrade to Mahara version 1.2.4, 1.1.8 or 1.0.14 : http://launchpad.net/mahara/+download
     
CVE   CVE-2010-0400
CVE-2009-1669
CVE-2008-4811
CVE-2008-4810
     
References   http://www.mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=1714
http://www.mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=1713
http://www.mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=1712
     
Vulnerability Manager Detection   No
     
IPS Protection  
ASQ Engine alarm Available Since
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious OR statement in URL
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious SELECT statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious combination of 'OR' or 'AND' statements in URL
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : possible version probing in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious CREATE statement in URL
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious CAST statement in URL
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious OPENROWSET statement in URL
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious DECLARE statement in URL
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious OPENQUERY statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious CREATE statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious UPDATE statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious UNION statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious OPENQUERY statement in URL
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious shutdown statement in URL
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious UNION SELECT statement in URL
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious DROP statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : possible database version probing
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious INSERT statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious OR statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious UPDATE SET statement in URL
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious EXEC statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious SELECT statement in URL
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious INSERT statement in URL
3.2.0
Misc : Remote code execution prevention: 2 '|' characters found as a parameter of a script file
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious DROP statement in URL
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious OPENROWSET statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious EXEC statement in URL
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : block comment delimiters in URL
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious DECLARE statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious HAVING statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious CAST statement in data
3.2.0
     


 
 
 
 
 Risk level 
Moderate 

 Vulnerability First Public Report Date 
2010-04-07 

 Target Type 
Server 

 Possible exploit 
Local & Remote