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Debian: CVE-2021-44858: mediawiki -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2021-44858: mediawiki -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
12/17/2021
Created
12/18/2021
Added
12/17/2021
Modified
01/04/2022

Description

An issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.35.5, 1.36.x before 1.36.3, and 1.37.x before 1.37.1. It is possible to use action=edit&undo= followed by action=mcrundo and action=mcrrestore to view private pages on a private wiki that has at least one page set in $wgWhitelistRead.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-mediawiki

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