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title: "CVE-2012-2351\n    | Ubuntu"
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# CVE-2012-2351

Publication date 12 July 2012

Last updated 24 July 2024

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Ubuntu priority

**Medium**

[Why this priority?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#priority )

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## 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.

## Status

Show unmaintained releases

| Package | Ubuntu Release | Status |
| --- | --- | --- |
| mahara | 13.10 saucy | Not affected |
| 13.04 raring | Not affected |
| 12.10 quantal | Not affected |
| 12.04 LTS precise | Not affected |
| 11.10 oneiric | Ignored end of life |
| 11.04 natty | Ignored end of life |
| 10.04 LTS lucid | Ignored end of life |
| 8.04 LTS hardy | Not in release |

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* [What do statuses mean?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#statuses)

## References

* [MITRE](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-2351)
* [NVD](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-2351)
* [Launchpad](https://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2012-2351)
* [Debian](https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-2351)

### Other references

* <https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-2351>