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SCA: security update for mediawiki/core (GHSA-5vj8-g3qg-4qh6)

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 421710

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - An issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.35.10, 1.36.x through 1.38.x before 1.38.6, and 1.39.x
 before 1.39.3. An auto-block can occur for an untrusted X-Forwarded-For header. (CVE-2023-29141)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5vj8-g3qg-4qh6

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 421710

Version: Revision 1.9

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/28/2025

Updated: 6/1/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-29141

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/31/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/31/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-29141

cwe: CWE-444