ghsa-5qr9-g785-2f9v
Vulnerability from github
Published
2022-05-13 01:10
Modified
2022-05-13 01:10
Details

MediaWiki before 1.17.1 does not check for read permission before handling action=ajax requests, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by (1) leveraging the SpecialUpload::ajaxGetExistsWarning function, or by (2) leveraging an extension, as demonstrated by the CategoryTree, ExtTab, and InlineEditor extensions.

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{
  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2011-4361"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-276"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2012-01-08T11:55:00Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
  "details": "MediaWiki before 1.17.1 does not check for read permission before handling action=ajax requests, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by (1) leveraging the SpecialUpload::ajaxGetExistsWarning function, or by (2) leveraging an extension, as demonstrated by the CategoryTree, ExtTab, and InlineEditor extensions.",
  "id": "GHSA-5qr9-g785-2f9v",
  "modified": "2022-05-13T01:10:43Z",
  "published": "2022-05-13T01:10:43Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-4361"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=758171"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32616"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2011-November/000104.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/29/12"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/29/6"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2366"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": []
}


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