Executive Summary
This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
| Summary | |
|---|---|
| Title | mediawiki security update |
| Informations | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Name | DSA-2957 | First vendor Publication | 2014-06-12 |
| Vendor | Debian | Last vendor Modification | 2014-06-12 |
| Severity (Vendor) | N/A | Revision | 1 |
Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3
| Cvss vector : N/A | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Overall CVSS Score | NA | ||
| Base Score | NA | Environmental Score | NA |
| impact SubScore | NA | Temporal Score | NA |
| Exploitabality Sub Score | NA | ||
| Calculate full CVSS 3.0 Vectors scores | |||
Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2
| Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N) | |||
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| Cvss Base Score | 2.6 | Attack Range | Network |
| Cvss Impact Score | 2.9 | Attack Complexity | High |
| Cvss Expoit Score | 4.9 | Authentication | None Required |
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Detail
| Omer Iqbal discovered that Mediawiki, a wiki engine, parses invalid usernames on Special:PasswordReset as wikitext when $wgRawHtml is enabled. On such wikis this allows an unauthenticated attacker to insert malicious JavaScript, a cross site scripting attack. For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 1:1.19.16+dfsg-0+deb7u1. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1:1.19.16+dfsg-1. We recommend that you upgrade your mediawiki packages. |
Original Source
| Url : http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2957 |
CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration
| % | Id | Name |
|---|---|---|
| 100 % | CWE-79 | Failure to Preserve Web Page Structure ('Cross-site Scripting') (CWE/SANS Top 25) |
OVAL Definitions
| Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:25068 | |||
| Oval ID: | oval:org.mitre.oval:def:25068 | ||
| Title: | DSA-2957-1 mediawiki - security update | ||
| Description: | Omer Iqbal discovered that Mediawiki, a wiki engine, parses invalid usernames on Special:PasswordReset as wikitext when $wgRawHtml is enabled. On such wikis this allows an unauthenticated attacker to insert malicious JavaScript, a cross site scripting attack. | ||
| Family: | unix | Class: | patch |
| Reference(s): | DSA-2957-1 CVE-2014-3966 | Version: | 3 |
| Platform(s): | Debian GNU/Linux 7.0 Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 7.0 | Product(s): | mediawiki |
| Definition Synopsis: | |||
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CPE : Common Platform Enumeration
Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner
| Date | Description |
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| 2014-06-19 | Name : The remote web server contains an application that is affected by a cross-sit... File : mediawiki_1_21_10.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2014-06-13 | Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update. File : debian_DSA-2957.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2014-06-11 | Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates. File : mandriva_MDVSA-2014-119.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
Alert History
| Date | Informations |
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| 2014-06-14 13:37:26 |
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| 2014-06-12 21:22:55 |
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