Information disclosure in MediaWiki - CVE-2013-1817
Published: November 20, 2019 / Updated: July 17, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU30592
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2013-1817
CWE-ID: CWE-200
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to gain access to sensitive information.
MediaWiki before 1.19.4 and 1.20.x before 1.20.3 contains an error in the api.php script which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information.
Affected software
MediaWiki
Fedora
mediawiki119
Fedora
mediawiki119
How to mitigate CVE-2013-1817
Install update from vendor's website.
MediaWiki - update to 1.20.3
mediawiki119 - update to 1.19.4-1.el6
mediawiki119 - update to 1.19.4-1.el6
External References
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201310-21.xml
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/03/05/4
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/58305
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2013-1817
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/88359
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-1817