Advisories ยป MGASA-2023-0204

Updated mediawiki packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 28 Jun 2023
Modification date: 28 Jun 2023
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 8
CVE: CVE-2020-36649 , CVE-2022-47927 , CVE-2023-22909 , CVE-2023-2291 , CVE-2023-29141

Description

Bundled PapaParse copy in VisualEditor has known ReDos (CVE-2020-36649).

An issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.35.9. When installing with a
pre-existing data directory that has weak permissions, the SQLite files
are created with file mode 0644, i.e., world readable to local users.
These files include credentials data (CVE-2022-47927).

An issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.35.9. SpecialMobileHistory
allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service because database
queries are slow (CVE-2023-22909).

An issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.35.9. E-Widgets does widget
replacement in HTML attributes, which can lead to XSS, because widget
authors often do not expect that their widget is executed in an HTML
attribute context (CVE-2023-22911).

An issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.35.10. An auto-block can
occur for an untrusted X-Forwarded-For header (CVE-2023-29141).

OATHAuth allows replay attacks when MediaWiki is configured without
ObjectCache; Insecure Default Configuration (T330086).

References

SRPMS

8/core