UBUNTU-CVE-2025-62699

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2025-62699

    Published: 21 Oct 2025Last Modified: 27 May 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2025-62699

    Summary:

    Details: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability in The Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - Translate Extension allows Footprinting. Translate extension appears to use jobs to make edits to translation pages. This causes the CheckUser tool to log the wrong IP and User-Agent making these edits un-auditable via the CheckUser tool.This issue affects Mediawiki - Translate Extension: from master before 1.39.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-62699, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-62699, https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/I65c740c8ca5130b40463d687e2f0775951abbf22, https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/Idac164418362c65d0ad37055fe9e0ad134197da3, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T399627

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: mediawiki

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/mediawiki?arch=source&distro=bionic

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    1:1.27.3-1
    1:1.27.4-1
    1:1.27.4-2
    1:1.27.4-3

    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
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