Information Exposure Affecting mediawiki package, versions <1:1.27.7-1~deb9u2
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.69% (80th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN9-MEDIAWIKI-469240
- published 26 Sep 2019
- disclosed 26 Sep 2019
Introduced: 26 Sep 2019
CVE-2019-16738 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:9
mediawiki
to version 1:1.27.7-1~deb9u2 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.
In MediaWiki through 1.33.0, Special:Redirect allows information disclosure of suppressed usernames via a User ID Lookup.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-16738
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Oct/32
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4545
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7OMG3BMUHGWTAPYTK2NXM6CXF6FYLOUO/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QBAOLXETM5BOYQG6OQVHGB2LNLZUXVN6/
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T230402
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2019-16738
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7OMG3BMUHGWTAPYTK2NXM6CXF6FYLOUO/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QBAOLXETM5BOYQG6OQVHGB2LNLZUXVN6/