Advisories » MGASA-2020-0021

Updated mediawiki packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 05 Jan 2020
Modification date: 05 Jan 2020
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 7
CVE: CVE-2019-19709

Description

Updated mediawiki packages fix security vulnerability:

MediaWiki through 1.33.1 allows attackers to bypass the Title_blacklist
protection mechanism by starting with an arbitrary title, establishing
a non-resolvable redirect for the associated page, and using redirect=1
in the action API when editing that page (CVE-2019-19709).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25986
• https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2019-December/000243.html
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-19709

SRPMS

7/core

• mediawiki-1.31.6-1.mga7