Bug 1903770 (CVE-2020-25869) - CVE-2020-25869 mediawiki: handling of actor ID does not necessarily use the correct database or correct wiki leads to information disclosure
Summary: CVE-2020-25869 mediawiki: handling of actor ID does not necessarily use the c...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2020-25869
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1903771
Blocks: 1903781
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2020-12-02 18:31 UTC by Dhananjay Arunesh
Modified: 2021-02-16 18:47 UTC (History)
11 users (show)

Fixed In Version: mediawiki-1.34.4, mediawiki-1.31.10
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Last Closed: 2020-12-07 17:02:54 UTC
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Description Dhananjay Arunesh 2020-12-02 18:31:38 UTC
An information leak was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.31.10 and 1.32.x through 1.34.x before 1.34.4. Handling of actor ID does not necessarily use the correct database or correct wiki.

References:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2020-September/048480.html
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2020-September/048488.html
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T260485

Comment 1 Dhananjay Arunesh 2020-12-02 18:31:59 UTC
Created mediawiki tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1903771]

Comment 2 Przemyslaw Roguski 2020-12-07 16:23:43 UTC
Upstream commit:
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/629733

Comment 4 Przemyslaw Roguski 2020-12-07 16:23:48 UTC
External References:

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T260485

Comment 5 Przemyslaw Roguski 2020-12-07 16:52:54 UTC
Statement:

OpenShift Container Platform (OCP)  delivers the mediawiki package, but the vulnerable code is not bundled, therefore OCP is not affected by this flaw.

Comment 6 Product Security DevOps Team 2020-12-07 17:02:54 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-2020-25869


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