MGASA-2023-0204

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MGASA-2023-0204

Summary: Updated mediawiki packages fix security vulnerability

Details: Bundled PapaParse copy in VisualEditor has known ReDos (CVE-2020-36649). An issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.35.9. When installing with a pre-existing data directory that has weak permissions, the SQLite files are created with file mode 0644, i.e., world readable to local users. These files include credentials data (CVE-2022-47927). An issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.35.9. SpecialMobileHistory allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service because database queries are slow (CVE-2023-22909). An issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.35.9. E-Widgets does widget replacement in HTML attributes, which can lead to XSS, because widget authors often do not expect that their widget is executed in an HTML attribute context (CVE-2023-22911). An issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.35.10. An auto-block can occur for an untrusted X-Forwarded-For header (CVE-2023-29141). OATHAuth allows replay attacks when MediaWiki is configured without ObjectCache; Insecure Default Configuration (T330086).

References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2023-0204.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31463, https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/UEMW64LVEH3BEXCJV43CVS6XPYURKWU3/, https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/6UQBHI5FWLATD7QO7DI4YS54U7XSSLAN/, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/AP65YEN762IBNQPOYGUVLTQIDLM5XD2A/, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/ZGK4NZPIJ5ET2ANRZOUYPCRIB5I64JR7/