Bug 1903764 (CVE-2020-25813)

Summary: CVE-2020-25813 mediawiki: Special:UserRights exposes the existence of hidden users
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Dhananjay Arunesh <darunesh>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact:
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Version: unspecifiedCC: aos-bugs, axel.thimm, bmontgom, eparis, jburrell, jokerman, mike, nstielau, puiterwijk, shurley, sponnaga
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Fixed In Version: mediawiki-1.34.4, mediawiki-1.31.10 Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
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Bug Depends On: 1903765, 1905140    
Bug Blocks: 1903781    

Description Dhananjay Arunesh 2020-12-02 18:25:59 UTC
In MediaWiki before 1.31.10 and 1.32.x through 1.34.x before 1.34.4, Special:UserRights exposes the existence of hidden users.

References:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2020-September/048480.html
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2020-September/048488.html
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UserRights

Comment 1 Dhananjay Arunesh 2020-12-02 18:26:39 UTC
Created mediawiki tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1903765]

Comment 2 Przemyslaw Roguski 2020-12-07 16:06:05 UTC
Upstream commit:
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/609532

Comment 3 Przemyslaw Roguski 2020-12-07 16:06:07 UTC
Statement:

The mediawiki package was removed from OpenShift Container Platform in version 4.3.

Comment 4 Przemyslaw Roguski 2020-12-07 16:06:09 UTC
External References:

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T232568