Bug 1948641 (CVE-2021-30155)

Summary: CVE-2021-30155 mediawiki: ContentModelChange does not check if a user has correct permissions to create and set the content model of a nonexistent page
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz <gsuckevi>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact:
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: medium    
Version: unspecifiedCC: aos-bugs, axel.thimm, bmontgom, eparis, jburrell, jokerman, mike, nstielau, puiterwijk, shurley, sponnaga
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: mediawiki 1.31.12, mediawiki 1.35.2 Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
Doc Text:
In the mediawiki package, a user can create new page even if it matches [[MediaWiki:Titleblacklist]] restriction when using [[Special:ChangeContentModel]].
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Last Closed: 2021-10-28 08:51:00 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Depends On: 1947340, 1948642    
Bug Blocks: 1948646    

Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2021-04-12 16:39:08 UTC
An issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.31.12 and 1.32.x through 1.35.x before 1.35.2. ContentModelChange does not check if a user has correct permissions to create and set the content model of a nonexistent page.

Reference:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T270988

Comment 1 Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2021-04-12 16:40:16 UTC
Created mediawiki tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1948642]

Comment 2 Przemyslaw Roguski 2021-04-13 10:46:29 UTC
Statement:

The mediawiki package was removed from OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) in version 4.3, therefore for OCP 4 has been marked as out of support scope.