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ghsa-734c-2q7q-jhcc

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Published

2022-05-17 05:53

Modified

2025-04-09 04:02

Details

MediaWiki 1.8.1, and other versions before 1.13.3, when the wgShowExceptionDetails variable is enabled, sometimes provides the full installation path in a debugging message, which might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via unspecified requests that trigger an uncaught exception.

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CVE-2008-5688 (GCVE-0-2008-5688)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2008-12-19 17:00

Modified

2024-08-07 11:04

Severity ?

CWE

n/a

Summary

MediaWiki 1.8.1, and other versions before 1.13.3, when the wgShowExceptionDetails variable is enabled, sometimes provides the full installation path in a debugging message, which might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via unspecified requests that trigger an uncaught exception.

References

URL

Tags

	https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-December/msg01309.html	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA
	http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2008-December/000080.html	mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
	http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:%24wgShowExceptionDetails	x_refsource_MISC
	https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-December/msg01256.html	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA
	http://secunia.com/advisories/33349	third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	n/a	n/a	Version: n/a

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