MGASA-2017-0429

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    MGASA-2017-0429

    Published: 29 Nov 2017Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026

    Summary: Updated mediawiki packages fix security vulnerabilities

    Details: XSS when $wgShowExceptionDetails = false and browser sends non-standard url escaping (CVE-2017-8808). Reflected File Download from api.php (CVE-2017-8809). On private wikis, login form shouldn't distinguish between login failure due to bad username and bad password (CVE-2017-8810). It's possible to mangle HTML via raw message parameter expansion (CVE-2017-8811). The id attribute on headlines allow raw > (CVE-2017-8812). Language converter can be tricked into replacing text inside tags by adding a lot of junk after the rule definition (CVE-2017-8814). Language converter: unsafe attribute injection via glossary rules (CVE-2017-8815). composer.json has require-dev versions of PHPUnit with known security issues (CVE-2017-9841). Note that MediaWiki 1.23.x on Mageia 5 is no longer supported. Those using the mediawiki package on Mageia 5 should upgrade to Mageia 6.

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0429.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22038, https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2017-November/000216.html

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: mediawiki

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/mediawiki?arch=source&distro=mageia-6

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.27.4-1.mga6

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High