CVE-2020-35480
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-12-18 07:40
Modified
2024-08-04 17:02
Severity ?
Summary
An issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.35.1. Missing users (accounts that don't exist) and hidden users (accounts that have been explicitly hidden due to being abusive, or similar) that the viewer cannot see are handled differently, exposing sensitive information about the hidden status to unprivileged viewers. This exists on various code paths.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00034.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/STT5Z4A3BCXVH3WIPICWU2FP4IPIMUPC/
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2020-December/000268.htmlMailing List, Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T120883Permissions Required
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4816Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00034.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/STT5Z4A3BCXVH3WIPICWU2FP4IPIMUPC/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2020-December/000268.htmlMailing List, Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T120883Permissions Required
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4816Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
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