CVE-2012-2351

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-07-12 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-16

Description

The default configuration of the auth/saml plugin in Mahara before 1.4.2 sets the "Match username attribute to Remote username" option to false, which allows remote SAML IdP servers to spoof users of other SAML IdP servers by using the same internal username.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 6.0
mahara: through 1.4.1; 0.9.0, 0.9.1, 0.9.2, 1.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2 (+67)

References

http://gitorious.org/mahara/mahara/commit/f07be6020e70fa8f53cd77fdcd63e7fd7ff8aaea
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2467
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/11/9
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/12/4
https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/932909
http://gitorious.org/mahara/mahara/commit/f07be6020e70fa8f53cd77fdcd63e7fd7ff8aaea
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2467
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/11/9
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/12/4
https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/932909

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