CVE-2012-4382
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 4.9 · Information disclosure
4.9CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
MediaWiki before 1.18.5, and 1.19.x before 1.19.2 does not properly protect user block metadata, which allows remote administrators to read a user block reason via a reblock attempt.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredHigh
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactHigh
Integrity impactNone
Availability impactNone
Exploit probability (EPSS)1%
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Official patch: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/31/10 ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/31/10Patch
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/31/6Patch
- https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-August/000119.htmlPatch
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T41823Advisory
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=686330Advisory