cve-2021-36127
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-07-02 13:00
Modified
2024-08-04 00:47
Severity ?
Summary
An issue was discovered in the CentralAuth extension in MediaWiki through 1.36. The Special:GlobalUserRights page provided search results which, for a suppressed MediaWiki user, were different than for any other user, thus easily disclosing suppressed accounts (which are supposed to be completely hidden).
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/I4e4dbcad61e1d4f6fd8b038bf63d19c69081a8ecPatch, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T285190Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/I4e4dbcad61e1d4f6fd8b038bf63d19c69081a8ecPatch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T285190Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
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