Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere in MediaWiki - CVE-2017-0367

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Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere in MediaWiki - CVE-2017-0367

Published: April 13, 2018 / Updated: July 17, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU31325
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Amber
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-0367
CWE-ID:
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: MediaWiki.org
Affected software:
MediaWiki

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote authenticated user to execute arbitrary code.

Mediawiki before 1.28.1 / 1.27.2 contains an unsafe use of temporary directory, where having LocalisationCache directory default to system tmp directory is insecure.


How to mitigate CVE-2017-0367

Install update from vendor's website.

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