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Fedora 9 : mediawiki-1.13.3-42.fc9 (2008-11802)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 35267
Synopsis
The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.Description
This is a security release of MediaWiki 1.13.3. Some of the security issues affect *all* versions of MediaWiki except the versions released on Dec. 15th, so all site administrators are encouraged to upgrade.CVEs assigned to the mentioned MediaWiki update: CVE-2008-5249 Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki 1.13.0 through 1.13.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors. CVE-2008-5250 Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1.6.11, 1.12.x before 1.12.2, and 1.13.x before 1.13.3, when Internet Explorer is used and uploads are enabled, or an SVG scripting browser is used and SVG uploads are enabled, allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML by editing a wiki page. CVE-2008-5252 Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Special:Import feature in MediaWiki 1.3.0 through 1.6.10, 1.12.x before 1.12.2, and 1.13.x before 1.13.3 allows remote attackers to perform unspecified actions as authenticated users via unknown vectors. As well as other two issue mentioned in the upstream announcement, treated as security enhancement rather than vulnerability fixes by upstream: CVE-2008-5687 MediaWiki 1.11 through 1.13.3 does not properly protect against the download of backups of deleted images, which might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via requests for files in images/deleted/. CVE-2008-5688 MediaWiki 1.8.1 through 1.13.3, when the wgShowExceptionDetails variable is enabled, sometimes provides the full installation path in a debugging message, which might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via unspecified requests that trigger an uncaught exception.
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. 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
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 35267
File Name: fedora_2008-11802.nasl
Version: 1.17
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Fedora Local Security Checks
Published: 12/26/2008
Updated: 1/11/2021
Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Low
Score: 3.7
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 5.8
Temporal Score: 4.3
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:mediawiki, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:9
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 12/24/2008
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2008-5249, CVE-2008-5250, CVE-2008-5252, CVE-2008-5687, CVE-2008-5688
BID: 32844
FEDORA: 2008-11802