Fedora 19 : mediawiki-1.21.10-1.fc19 (2014-6962)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 74412

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- (bug 65501) SECURITY: Don't parse usernames as wikitext on Special:PasswordReset.

- (bug 36356) Add space between two feed links.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected mediawiki package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?76398b2e

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 74412

File Name: fedora_2014-6962.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/10/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:mediawiki, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:19

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/1/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/1/2014

Exploitable With

Elliot (MediaWiki thumb.php page Parameter Remote Shell Command Injection)

Reference Information

BID: 65003, 65223, 67068

FEDORA: 2014-6962