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Debian DLA-2648-2 : mediawiki regression update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 149344

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

The patch from latest upstream release to address CVE-2021-30152 was not portable to stretch-security version causing MediaWiki APIs to fail. This update includes a patch from upstream REL_31 release which fix the issue.

For Debian 9 stretch, this problem has been fixed in version 1:1.27.7-1~deb9u9.

We recommend that you upgrade your mediawiki packages.

For the detailed security status of mediawiki please refer to its security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/mediawiki

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected mediawiki, and mediawiki-classes packages.

See Also

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

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

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 149344

File Name: debian_DLA-2648.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/7/2021

Updated: 1/12/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, 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:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-30158

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:debian:debian_linux:mediawiki-classes, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0, 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: 5/6/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/17/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-20270, CVE-2021-27291, CVE-2021-30152, CVE-2021-30155, CVE-2021-30158, CVE-2021-30159