CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-4361
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-01-08
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-276
Description
MediaWiki before 1.17.1 does not check for read permission before handling action=ajax requests, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by (1) leveraging the SpecialUpload::ajaxGetExistsWarning function, or by (2) leveraging an extension, as demonstrated by the CategoryTree, ExtTab, and InlineEditor extensions.
Affected configurations
• mediawiki mediawiki (< 1.17.1)
• debian debian linux 5.0
• debian debian linux 6.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-276 Incorrect Default Permissions weakness
References
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2011-November/000104.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/29/12 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/29/6 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2366 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=758171 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32616 Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2011-November/000104.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/29/12 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/29/6 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2366 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=758171 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32616 Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory