CVE-2021-30159

Description

An issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.31.12 and 1.32.x through 1.35.x before 1.35.2. Users can bypass intended restrictions on deleting pages in certain "fast double move" situations. MovePage::isValidMoveTarget() uses FOR UPDATE, but it's only called if Title::getArticleID() returns non-zero with no special flags. Next, MovePage::moveToInternal() will delete the page if getArticleID(READ_LATEST) is non-zero. Therefore, if the page is missing in the replica DB, isValidMove() will return true, and then moveToInternal() will unconditionally delete the page if it can be found in the master.

References

https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4889

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-40

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T272386

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2OMSV7B2TCFBOCICN3B4SMQP5HVRJQIT/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/26UJGHF7LJDOCQN6A3Z4PM7PYRKENJHE/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/05/msg00006.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/05/msg00003.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3