CVE-2023-29141 (GCVE-0-2023-29141)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-03-31 00:00
Modified
2025-02-18 16:02
Severity ?
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
An issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.35.10, 1.36.x through 1.38.x before 1.38.6, and 1.39.x before 1.39.3. An auto-block can occur for an untrusted X-Forwarded-For header.
References
cve@mitre.org https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/mediawiki/core/+/REL1_39/RELEASE-NOTES-1.39 Release Notes
cve@mitre.org https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/08/msg00029.html
cve@mitre.org https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ONWHGOBFD6CQAEGOP5O375XAP2N6RUHT/
cve@mitre.org https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZGK4NZPIJ5ET2ANRZOUYPCRIB5I64JR7/
cve@mitre.org https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T285159 Issue Tracking, Permissions Required
cve@mitre.org https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5447
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/mediawiki/core/+/REL1_39/RELEASE-NOTES-1.39 Release Notes
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/08/msg00029.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ONWHGOBFD6CQAEGOP5O375XAP2N6RUHT/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZGK4NZPIJ5ET2ANRZOUYPCRIB5I64JR7/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T285159 Issue Tracking, Permissions Required
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5447
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T285159 Issue Tracking, Permissions Required
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