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Fedora 41 : mediawiki (2025-25b16d6561)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 214649

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Fedora 41 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2025-25b16d6561 advisory.

 https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech- [email protected]/thread/PFTE5RHUERS6KTUGGRZO7XXV5THNJ77E/

 https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/mediawiki- [email protected]/thread/5NYC4UZLY3MWQZ6DYJAUQRJG2ZHZFBJ6/

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

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

Solution

Update the affected mediawiki package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-25b16d6561

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 214649

File Name: fedora_2025-25b16d6561.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/26/2025

Updated: 1/26/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

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-2024-47848

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Threat Score: 2.7

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:mediawiki, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:41

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/17/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/4/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-47848