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Improper Privilege Management Affecting mediawiki package, versions <1:1.27.5-1~deb9u1

0.0
medium

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.41% (74th percentile)
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NVD
4.3 medium
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Red Hat
5.3 medium

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN9-MEDIAWIKI-370223
  • published 25 Sep 2018
  • disclosed 4 Oct 2018
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Introduced: 25 Sep 2018

CVE-2018-0503 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-269 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:9 mediawiki to version 1:1.27.5-1~deb9u1 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:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

Mediawiki 1.31 before 1.31.1, 1.30.1, 1.29.3 and 1.27.5 contains a flaw where contrary to the documentation, $wgRateLimits entry for 'user' overrides that for 'newbie'.