Advisories » MGASA-2020-0381

Updated mediawiki packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 30 Sep 2020
Modification date: 30 Sep 2020
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 7
CVE: CVE-2020-25812 , CVE-2020-25813 , CVE-2020-25814 , CVE-2020-25815 , CVE-2020-25827 , CVE-2020-25828 , CVE-2020-25869

Description

Multiple security issues were discovered in MediaWiki: SpecialUserRights could
leak whether a user existed or not, multiple code paths lacked HTML
sanitisation allowing for cross-site scripting and TOTP validation applied
insufficient rate limiting against brute force attempts (CVE-2020-25812,
CVE-2020-25813, CVE-2020-25814, CVE-2020-25815, CVE-2020-25827,
CVE-2020-25828).

Possible issues with actors not being loaded from the correct database or wiki
(CVE-2020-25869).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27331
• https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2020-September/000260.html
• https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2020-September/000262.html
• https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4767
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-25812
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-25813
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-25814
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-25815
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-25827
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-25828
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-25869

SRPMS

7/core

• mediawiki-1.31.10-1.mga7