CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-6337
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-04-20
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-284
Description
MediaWiki 1.27.x before 1.27.1 might allow remote attackers to bypass intended session access restrictions by leveraging a call to the UserGetRights function after Session::getAllowedUserRights.
Affected configurations
• mediawiki mediawiki 1.27.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-284 Improper Access Control weakness
References
- https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2016-August/000195.html Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139670 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2016-August/000195.html Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139670 Patch, Third Party Advisory