github - ghsa-x4wg-g4fv-f8m6

ghsa-x4wg-g4fv-f8m6

Vulnerability from github

Published

2021-12-18 00:01

Modified

2022-07-13 00:01

Severity ?

6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Details

An issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.35.5, 1.36.x before 1.36.3, and 1.37.x before 1.37.1. It is possible to use action=mcrundo followed by action=mcrrestore to replace the content of any arbitrary page (that the user doesn't have edit rights for). This applies to any public wiki, or a private wiki that has at least one page set in $wgWhitelistRead.

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  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2021-44857"
  ],
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    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-269",
      "CWE-862"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2021-12-17T04:15:00Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
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  "id": "GHSA-x4wg-g4fv-f8m6",
  "modified": "2022-07-13T00:01:49Z",
  "published": "2021-12-18T00:01:07Z",
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    },
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      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T297322"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-24"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/2021-12_security_release/FAQ"
    }
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      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N",
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}

CVE-2021-44857 (GCVE-0-2021-44857)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2021-12-17 00:00

Modified

2024-08-04 04:32

Severity ?

CWE

n/a

Summary

An issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.35.5, 1.36.x before 1.36.3, and 1.37.x before 1.37.1. It is possible to use action=mcrundo followed by action=mcrrestore to replace the content of any arbitrary page (that the user doesn't have edit rights for). This applies to any public wiki, or a private wiki that has at least one page set in $wgWhitelistRead.

References

URL

Tags

	https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T297322
	https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/2021-12_security_release/FAQ
	https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-24	vendor-advisory

Impacted products

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

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