PT-2015-7704 · Wikimedia+2 · Mediawiki+2

Richard Stanway · Published 2015-10-29 · Updated 2015-11-10 · CVE-2015-8005

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 1.23.11 MediaWiki versions 1.24.x prior to 1.24.4 MediaWiki versions 1.25.x prior to 1.25.3

Description The issue allows remote attackers to obtain the installation path by reading the metadata of a PNG thumbnail file. This is due to the use of the thumbnail ImageMagick command line argument in affected MediaWiki versions.

Recommendations For MediaWiki versions prior to 1.23.11, update to version 1.23.11 or later. For MediaWiki versions 1.24.x prior to 1.24.4, update to version 1.24.4 or later. For MediaWiki versions 1.25.x prior to 1.25.3, update to version 1.25.3 or later.

Fix

Information Disclosure

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-200

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2015-1935

CVE-2015-8005

MGASA-2015-0421

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Imagemagick

Mediawiki

References · 42

• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-6728 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-2932 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-2931 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8005 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8005 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-6733 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-2938 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8001 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-2937 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-2942 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8009 · Security Note
• https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2015-October/000181.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8003 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-2935 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8005 · Vendor Advisory