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-4036 First vendor Publication 2017-11-15
Vendor Debian Last vendor Modification 2017-11-15
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
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 7.5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Multiple security vulnerabilities have been discovered in MediaWiki, a website engine for collaborative work:

CVE-2017-8808

Cross-site-scripting with non-standard URL escaping and $wgShowExceptionDetails disabled.

CVE-2017-8809

Reflected file download in API.

CVE-2017-8810

On private wikis the login form didn't distinguish between login failure due to bad username and bad password.

CVE-2017-8811

It was possible to mangle HTML via raw message parameter expansion.

CVE-2017-8812

id attributes in headlines allowed raw '>'.

CVE-2017-8814

Language converter could be tricked into replacing text inside tags.

CVE-2017-8815

Unsafe attribute injection via glossary rules in language converter.

For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 1:1.27.4-1~deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your mediawiki packages.

Original Source

Url : http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4036

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
50 % CWE-20 Improper Input Validation
17 % CWE-200 Information Exposure
17 % CWE-79 Failure to Preserve Web Page Structure ('Cross-site Scripting') (CWE/SANS Top 25)
17 % CWE-74 Failure to Sanitize Data into a Different Plane ('Injection')

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 315
Os 1

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2017-11-20 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.
File : freebsd_pkg_298829e2ccce11e792e4000c29649f92.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-11-16 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-4036.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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2017-11-28 21:24:30
  • Multiple Updates
2017-11-17 13:23:44
  • Multiple Updates
2017-11-16 00:23:21
  • First insertion