Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Summary
TitleNew mediawiki1.7 packages fix several vulnerabilities
Informations
NameDSA-1901First vendor Publication2009-10-05
VendorDebianLast vendor Modification2009-10-05
Severity (Vendor) N/ARevision1

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score5.8Attack RangeNetwork
Cvss Impact Score4.9Attack ComplexityMedium
Cvss Expoit Score8.6AuthentificationNone Required
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Detail

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in mediawiki1.7, a website engine for collaborative work. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:

CVE-2008-5249

David Remahl discovered that mediawiki1.7 is prone to a cross-site scripting attack.

CVE-2008-5250

David Remahl discovered that mediawiki1.7, 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

David Remahl discovered that mediawiki1.7 is prone to a cross-site request forgery vulnerability in the Special:Import feature.

CVE-2009-0737

It was discovered that mediawiki1.7 is prone to a cross-site scripting attack in the web-based installer.



For the oldstable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in version 1.7.1-9etch1 for mediawiki1.7, and mediawiki is not affected (it is a metapackage for mediawiki1.7).

The stable (lenny) distribution does not include mediawiki1.7, and these problems have been fixed in version 1:1.12.0-2lenny3 for mediawiki which was already included in the lenny release.

The unstable (sid) and testing (squeeze) distributions do not include mediawiki1.7, and these problems have been fixed in version 1:1.14.0-1 for mediawiki.



We recommend that you upgrade your mediawiki1.7 packages.

Original Source

Url : http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1901

CAPEC : Common Attack Pattern Enumeration & Classification

idName
CAPEC-18Embedding Scripts in Nonscript Elements
CAPEC-19Embedding Scripts within Scripts
CAPEC-32Embedding Scripts in HTTP Query Strings
CAPEC-63Simple Script Injection
CAPEC-85Client Network Footprinting (using AJAX/XSS)
CAPEC-86Embedding Script (XSS ) in HTTP Headers
CAPEC-91XSS in IMG Tags
CAPEC-106Cross Site Scripting through Log Files
CAPEC-198Cross-Site Scripting in Error Pages
CAPEC-199Cross-Site Scripting Using Alternate Syntax
CAPEC-209Cross-Site Scripting Using MIME Type Mismatch
CAPEC-232Exploitation of Privilege/Trust
CAPEC-243Cross-Site Scripting in Attributes
CAPEC-244Cross-Site Scripting via Encoded URI Schemes
CAPEC-245Cross-Site Scripting Using Doubled Characters, e.g. %3C%3Cscript
CAPEC-246Cross-Site Scripting Using Flash
CAPEC-247Cross-Site Scripting with Masking through Invalid Characters in Identifiers

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

idName
CWE-79Failure to Preserve Web Page Structure ('Cross-site Scripting')(CWE/SANS Top 25)
CWE-79Failure to Preserve Web Page Structure ('Cross-site Scripting')
CWE-352Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application60

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

idDescription
52034MediaWiki Installer config/index.php Unspecified Parameter XSS
50957MediaWiki Wiki Page Editing XSS
50956MediaWiki Unspecified XSS
50955MediaWiki Special:Import Feature Unspecified CSRF