CVE-2021-30152
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 4.3 · Improper privilege management
4.3CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
An issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.31.13 and 1.32.x through 1.35.x before 1.35.2. When using the MediaWiki API to "protect" a page, a user is currently able to protect to a higher level than they currently have permissions for.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredLow
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactLow
Availability impactNone
Exploit probability (EPSS)1%
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/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: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T270713 ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T270713Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/05/msg00003.htmlAdvisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/05/msg00006.htmlAdvisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/26UJGHF7LJDOCQN6A3Z4PM7PYRKENJHE/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2OMSV7B2TCFBOCICN3B4SMQP5HVRJQIT/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-40Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4889Advisory