Fedora 17 : mediawiki-1.19.5-1.fc17 (2013-6170)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 66259

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

*An internal review discovered that specially crafted Lua function names could lead to XSS.
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46084

*Daniel Franke reported that during SVG parsing, MediaWiki failed to prevent XML external entity (XXE) processing. This could lead to local file disclosure, or potentially remote command execution in environments that have enabled expect:// handling.
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46859

*Internal review also discovered that Special:Import, and Extension:RSS failed to prevent XML external entity (XXE) processing.
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47251

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.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 66259

File Name: fedora_2013-6170.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 4/30/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:mediawiki, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:17

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/21/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-1951

BID: 59077

FEDORA: 2013-6170

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