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Fedora 31 : mediawiki (2019-3ba38e1cdb)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 130295

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

== Security fixes ==

 - (T230402, CVE-2019-16738) SECURITY: Add permission check for suppressed account to Special:Redirect.

== Links to all mentioned tasks ==

 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T230402

 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T227662

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
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-2019-3ba38e1cdb

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T227662

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 130295

File Name: fedora_2019-3ba38e1cdb.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/28/2019

Updated: 4/16/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-16738

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/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:31

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: 10/26/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/26/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-16738