PT-2017-8965 · Wikimedia+1 · Mediawiki+1

Schnark · Published 2016-09-16 · Updated 2017-08-22 · CVE-2016-6335

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions MediaWiki versions prior to 1.23.15 MediaWiki versions 1.26.x prior to 1.26.4 MediaWiki versions 1.27.x prior to 1.27.1

Description The issue allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a parse action to "api.php". This is due to the software not generating head items in the context of a given title.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.23.15, update to version 1.23.15 or later. For versions 1.26.x prior to 1.26.4, update to version 1.26.4 or later. For versions 1.27.x prior to 1.27.1, update to version 1.27.1 or later.

Exploit

Fix

Information Disclosure

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-200

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2017-2095

CVE-2016-6335

MGASA-2016-0305

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Mediawiki

References · 50

• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/multi/http/mediawiki_syntaxhighlight.rb · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2016-0305 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6335 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8624 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6335 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-0361 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-0369 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6334 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-0368 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-0365 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6333 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2020-02564 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-12474 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6336 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-6335 · Vendor Advisory