National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-1580

Overview

The transwiki import functionality in MediaWiki before 1.16.3 does not properly check privileges, which allows remote authenticated users to perform imports from any wgImportSources wiki via a crafted POST request.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=696360

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=696360

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=695577

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=695577

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20110413 Re: CVE request: mediawiki 1.16.3

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/13/15

External Source: MLIST

Name: [mediawiki-announce] 20110412 MediaWiki security release 1.16.3

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2011-April/000096.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28449

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28449

External Source: XF

Name: mediawiki-transwiki-sec-bypass(66739)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/66739

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2011-1151

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/1151

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2011-1100

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/1100

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2011-0978

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0978

External Source: BID

Name: 47354

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47354

External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-2366

Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2366

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 44142

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/44142

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2011-5807

Hyperlink:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/059235.html

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2011-5812

Hyperlink:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/059232.html

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2011-5848

Hyperlink:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058910.html

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2011-5495

Hyperlink:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058588.html