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Fedora 27 : mediawiki (2018-edf90410ea)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 117965

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.29#MediaWiki_1.29.3

 - (T169545, CVE-2018-0503) SECURITY: $wgRateLimits entry for 'user' overrides 'newbie'.

 - (T194605, CVE-2018-0505) SECURITY: BotPasswords can bypass CentralAuth's account lock.

 - (T180551) Fix LanguageSrTest for language converter

 - (T180552) Fix langauge converter parser test with self-close tags

 - (T180537) Remove $wgAuth usage from wrapOldPasswords.php

 - (T180485) InputBox: Have inputbox langconvert certain attributes

 - (T161732, T181547) Upgraded Moment.js from v2.15.0 to v2.19.3.

 - (T172927) Drop vendor from MW release branch

 - (T87572) Make FormatMetadata::flattenArrayReal() work for an associative array

 - Updated composer/spdx-licenses from 1.1.4 to 1.3.0 (development dependency).

 - (T189567) the CLI installer (maintenance/install.php) learned to detect and include extensions. Pass
 --with-extensions to enable that feature.

 - (T182381) Mask deprecated call in WatchedItemUnitTest

 - (T190503) Let built-in web server (maintenance/dev) handle .php requests.

 - The karma qunit tests would fail on some configuration due to headers already sent. Check headers_sent() before sending cpPosTime headers

 - (T167507) selenium: Run Chrome headlessly.

 - selenium: Pass -no-sandbox to Chrome under Docker

 - (T191247) Use MediaWiki\SuppressWarnings around trigger_error() instead @

 - (T75174, T161041) Unit test ChangesListSpecialPageTest::testFilterUserExpLevel fails under SQLite.

 - (T192584) Stop incorrectly passing USE INDEX to RecentChange::newFromConds().

 - (T179190) selenium: Move test running logic from package.json to selenium.sh.

 - (T117839, T193200) PDFHandler: Fix for pdfinfo changes in poppler-utils 0.48.

 - Add default edit rate limit of 90 edits/minute for all users.

 - (T196125) php-memcached 3.0 (provided with PHP 7.0) is now supported.

 - (T196672) The mtime of extension.json files is now able to be zero

 - (T180403) Validate $length in padleft/padright parser functions.

 - (T143790) Make $wgEmailConfirmToEdit only affect edit actions.

 - (T194237) Special:BotPasswords now requires reauthentication.

 - (T191608, T187638) Add 'logid' parameter to Special:Log.

 - (T176097) resourceloader: Disable a flaky MessageBlobStoreTest case

 - (T193829) Indicate when a Bot Password needs reset.

 - (T151415) Log email changes.

 - (T118420) Unbreak Oracle installer.

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Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected mediawiki package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-edf90410ea

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 117965

File Name: fedora_2018-edf90410ea.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/9/2018

Updated: 7/31/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-0505

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:mediawiki, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:27

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/7/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/4/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-0503, CVE-2018-0504, CVE-2018-0505