Improper Privilege Management Affecting mediawiki-doc package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (31st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-MEDIAWIKIDOC-5273924
  • published26 Mar 2023
  • disclosed16 Dec 2021

Introduced: 16 Dec 2021

CVE-2021-44857  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-269  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:7 mediawiki-doc.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream mediawiki-doc package and not the mediawiki-doc package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1