Improper Privilege Management Affecting mediawiki package, versions <1:1.27.5-1~deb9u1
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.41% (74th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN9-MEDIAWIKI-370223
- published 25 Sep 2018
- disclosed 4 Oct 2018
Introduced: 25 Sep 2018
CVE-2018-0503 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:9
mediawiki
to version 1:1.27.5-1~deb9u1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream mediawiki
package and not the mediawiki
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:9
relevant fixed versions and status.
Mediawiki 1.31 before 1.31.1, 1.30.1, 1.29.3 and 1.27.5 contains a flaw where contrary to the documentation, $wgRateLimits entry for 'user' overrides that for 'newbie'.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-0503
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T169545
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4301
- https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2018-September/090849.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3238
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3813
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3142
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041695
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2018-0503