PT-2017-18545 · Wikimedia+1 · Mediawiki+1

Published 2017-11-15 · Updated 2017-12-11 · CVE-2017-8811

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.1

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions MediaWiki versions prior to 1.27.4 MediaWiki versions 1.28.x prior to 1.28.3 MediaWiki versions 1.29.x prior to 1.29.2

Description The issue affects the implementation of raw message parameter expansion, allowing HTML mangling attacks.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.27.4, update to version 1.27.4 or later. For versions 1.28.x prior to 1.28.3, update to version 1.28.3 or later. For versions 1.29.x prior to 1.29.2, update to version 1.29.2 or later.

Exploit

Fix

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2017-2786

CVE-2017-8811

DSA-4036-1

MGASA-2017-0429

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Mediawiki

References · 26

• 🔥 https://github.com/motikan2010/CVE-2017-8809_MediaWiki_RFD · Exploit
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/mediawiki · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-8812 · Security Note
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0429.html · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2017-0429 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-8808 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-8811 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-8811 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-8811 · Security Note
• https://debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4036 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-8810 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-4036-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-8811 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-8815 · Security Note
• https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2017-November/000216.html · Vendor Advisory