Bug 1922225 (CVE-2020-29005)

Summary: CVE-2020-29005 mediawiki: Information disclosure via cleartext transmitted ApiPush credentials
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Pedro Sampaio <psampaio>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG 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 1.31.11, mediawiki 1.35.1 Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
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Bug Depends On: 1922226    
Bug Blocks: 1922236    

Description Pedro Sampaio 2021-01-29 13:49:19 UTC 
The API in the Push extension for MediaWiki through 1.35 used cleartext for ApiPush credentials, allowing for potential information disclosure.

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/Push/+/625988
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T262724
Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2021-01-29 13:49:50 UTC 
Created mediawiki tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1922226]
Comment 2 Przemyslaw Roguski 2021-02-01 19:20:50 UTC 
External References:

https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2020-December/000270.html
Comment 3 Product Security DevOps Team 2021-02-01 20:41:50 UTC 
This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2020-29005