Open Redirect Affecting mediawiki package, versions <1:1.31.6-1
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
User Interaction
Required
Scope
Changed
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.42% (75th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN11-MEDIAWIKI-537616
- published 12 Dec 2019
- disclosed 11 Dec 2019
Introduced: 11 Dec 2019
CVE-2019-19709 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:11 mediawiki to version 1:1.31.6-1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream mediawiki package and not the mediawiki package as distributed by Debian.
See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.
MediaWiki through 1.33.1 allows attackers to bypass the Title_blacklist protection mechanism by starting with an arbitrary title, establishing a non-resolvable redirect for the associated page, and using redirect=1 in the action API when editing that page.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-19709
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Dec/48
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4592
- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/Ie54f366986056c876eade0fcad6c41f70b8b8de8
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T239466
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2019-19709