CVE-2025-59308: n/a
CVE-2025-59308 is a medium severity vulnerability in Mahara versions before 24. 04. 10 and 25 before 25. 04. 1. It allows an institution administrator or institution support administrator with the 'Site staff' role on a multi-tenanted site to masquerade as an institution member in an institution where they are not an administrator. This vulnerability involves improper access control (CWE-284). No official patch or remediation level is specified in the available data.
AI Analysis
Technical Summary
This vulnerability affects Mahara multi-tenanted deployments where institution administrators or support administrators who also have the 'Site staff' role can impersonate institution members of institutions they do not administer. This is due to insufficient access control restrictions. The CVSS 3.1 base score is 4.7 (medium), reflecting network attack vector, low complexity, high privileges required, no user interaction, unchanged scope, and low impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
Potential Impact
An attacker with institution administrator or support administrator privileges and the 'Site staff' role can masquerade as users in other institutions, potentially gaining unauthorized access to user-specific data or actions within those institutions. The impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability is rated low, but this unauthorized impersonation could lead to privacy violations or unauthorized actions within the affected institutions.
Mitigation Recommendations
Patch status is not yet confirmed — check the vendor advisory for current remediation guidance. Until an official fix is available, restrict the assignment of the 'Site staff' role combined with institution administrator or support administrator privileges to trusted personnel only. Monitor for any updates from the Mahara project regarding patches or official mitigations.
CVE-2025-59308: n/a
Description
CVE-2025-59308 is a medium severity vulnerability in Mahara versions before 24. 04. 10 and 25 before 25. 04. 1. It allows an institution administrator or institution support administrator with the 'Site staff' role on a multi-tenanted site to masquerade as an institution member in an institution where they are not an administrator. This vulnerability involves improper access control (CWE-284). No official patch or remediation level is specified in the available data.
CVSS v3.1
Score 4.7medium
Weaknesses
AI-Powered Analysis
Machine-generated threat intelligence
Technical Analysis
This vulnerability affects Mahara multi-tenanted deployments where institution administrators or support administrators who also have the 'Site staff' role can impersonate institution members of institutions they do not administer. This is due to insufficient access control restrictions. The CVSS 3.1 base score is 4.7 (medium), reflecting network attack vector, low complexity, high privileges required, no user interaction, unchanged scope, and low impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
Potential Impact
An attacker with institution administrator or support administrator privileges and the 'Site staff' role can masquerade as users in other institutions, potentially gaining unauthorized access to user-specific data or actions within those institutions. The impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability is rated low, but this unauthorized impersonation could lead to privacy violations or unauthorized actions within the affected institutions.
Mitigation Recommendations
Patch status is not yet confirmed — check the vendor advisory for current remediation guidance. Until an official fix is available, restrict the assignment of the 'Site staff' role combined with institution administrator or support administrator privileges to trusted personnel only. Monitor for any updates from the Mahara project regarding patches or official mitigations.
Technical Details
- Data Version
- 5.2
- Assigner Short Name
- mitre
- Date Reserved
- 2025-09-12T00:00:00.000Z
- Cvss Version
- 3.1
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Remediation Level
- null
Threat ID: 69eb98a187115cfb684afa5a
Added to database: 4/24/2026, 4:21:53 PM
Last enriched: 5/1/2026, 8:46:30 PM
Last updated: 6/8/2026, 4:59:08 PM
Views: 64
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