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Fedora 25 : python-wikitcms (2016-fce8b939c9)

high Nessus Plugin ID 96162

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update contains a **SECURITY** fix for an issue with potentially serious consequences but very limited scope. If an administrator of a wiki you talked to using python-wikitcms were malicious, they could cause arbitrary code execution as the user running wikitcms. No-one besides a wiki administrator could do this, as it requires crafting the wiki's response to an edit request to include a malicious payload.

It also drops some now useless or unneeded code (due to changes in mediawiki and mwclient).

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

Solution

Update the affected python-wikitcms package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-fce8b939c9

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 96162

File Name: fedora_2016-fce8b939c9.nasl

Version: 3.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/28/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:python-wikitcms, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:25

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

Patch Publication Date: 12/27/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/27/2016

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