An issue was discovered in Mahara 17.10 before 17.10.8, 18.04 before 18.04.4, and 18.10 before 18.10.1.

published 2019-05-07 7y ago modified 2026-06-17 4mo ago also EUVD-2019-19074

cvss: 4.9; version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 1.0%; EPSS 1.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 61%
public exploits: 0; none known

An issue was discovered in Mahara 17.10 before 17.10.8, 18.04 before 18.04.4, and 18.10 before 18.10.1. A site administrator can suspend the system user (root), causing all users to be locked out from the system.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1

mahara mahara 17.10.8, 18.04.4, 18.10.1

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Exploit prediction

0.96% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 61% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

bugs.launchpad.net https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1817221 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.0	4.9	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD	2.0	4.0	AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

References

bugs.launchpad.net /mahara/+bug/1817221
exploit, issue-tracking, third-party-advisory
mahara.org /interaction/forum/topic.php?id=8445
vendor-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2019-9708
NVD CVE-2019-9708

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