PT-2008-6739 · Wikimedia Foundation · Mediawiki

Published 2008-12-19 · Updated 2017-08-08 · CVE-2008-5687

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions MediaWiki versions prior to 1.13.3

Description The issue allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by requesting files in the images/deleted/ directory, potentially exposing backups of deleted images.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.13.3, update to version 1.13.3 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-264

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-5687

DTSA-186-1

Affected Products

Mediawiki

References · 10

• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-December/msg01256.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33349 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-5687 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-5687 · Vendor Advisory
• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-December/msg01309.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-5687 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2008-5687 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2008-December/000080.html · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5687 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47678 · Note