PT-2008-6740 · Mediawiki · Mediawiki

Published 2008-12-19 · Updated 2009-02-18 · CVE-2008-5688

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions MediaWiki versions 1.8.1 through 1.13.3

Description The issue allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via unspecified requests that trigger an uncaught exception, potentially providing the full installation path in a debugging message when the wgShowExceptionDetails variable is enabled.

Recommendations For MediaWiki versions 1.8.1 through 1.13.3, consider disabling the wgShowExceptionDetails variable to prevent sensitive information disclosure until a patch is available.

Fix

Information Disclosure

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-200

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-5688

Affected Products

Mediawiki

References · 10

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-5688 · Vendor Advisory
• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-December/msg01256.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2008-5688 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33349 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-5688 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-5688 · Security Note
• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-December/msg01309.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2008-December/000080.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:%24wgShowExceptionDetails · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5688 · Note