openSUSE 10 Security Update : mediawiki (mediawiki-5987)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 35679

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

Missing checks allowed remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) or cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks against MediaWiki (CVE-2008-5250, CVE-2008-5252).

Solution

Update the affected mediawiki package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 35679

File Name: suse_mediawiki-5987.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 2/13/2009

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:10.3, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mediawiki

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

Patch Publication Date: 2/5/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-5250, CVE-2008-5252

CWE: 352, 79

Detections

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