Debian DSA-4767-1 : mediawiki - security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 140811

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Multiple security issues were discovered in MediaWiki, a website engine for collaborative work: 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.

Solution

Upgrade the mediawiki packages.

For the stable distribution (buster), these problems have been fixed in version 1:1.31.10-1~deb10u1.

See Also

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/mediawiki

https://packages.debian.org/source/buster/mediawiki

https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4767

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 140811

File Name: debian_DSA-4767.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/28/2020

Updated: 2/20/2024

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: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-25827

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:10.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:mediawiki

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/25/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/24/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-15005, CVE-2020-25812, CVE-2020-25813, CVE-2020-25814, CVE-2020-25815, CVE-2020-25827, CVE-2020-25828

DSA: 4767