Debian DLA-3148-1 : mediawiki - LTS security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 166094

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing one or more security-related updates.

Description

The remote Debian 10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dla-3148 advisory.

- Mediawiki reports: (T316304, CVE-2022-41767) SECURITY: reassignEdits doesn't update results in an IP range check on Special:Contributions.. (T309894, CVE-2022-41765) SECURITY: HTMLUserTextField exposes existence of hidden users. (T307278, CVE-2022-41766) SECURITY: On action=rollback the message alreadyrolled can leak revision deleted user name. (CVE-2022-41765, CVE-2022-41767)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Upgrade the mediawiki packages.

For Debian 10 buster, these problems have been fixed in version 1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 166094

File Name: debian_DLA-3148.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 10/13/2022

Updated: 1/5/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-41767

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/12/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/2/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-41765, CVE-2022-41767

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