Bug 2036698 (CVE-2021-44858) - CVE-2021-44858 mediawiki: information disclosure
Summary: CVE-2021-44858 mediawiki: information disclosure
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2021-44858
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 2036699
Blocks: 2036706
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2022-01-03 15:51 UTC by Marian Rehak
Modified: 2022-01-07 17:52 UTC (History)
11 users (show)

Fixed In Version: mediawiki 1.35.5, mediawiki 1.36.3, mediawiki 1.37.1
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A flaw was found in mediawiki. The "undo" feature (action=edit&undo=##&undoafter=###) allowed an attacker to view the contents of arbitrary revisions, regardless of whether they had permissions to do so. This was also found in the "mcrundo" and "mcrrestore" actions (action=mcrundo and action=mcrrestore).
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Last Closed: 2022-01-07 16:11:04 UTC
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Description Marian Rehak 2022-01-03 15:51:02 UTC 
It is possible to use action=edit&undo= followed by action=mcrundo and action=mcrrestore to view private pages on a private wiki that has at least one page set in $wgWhitelistRead.

Upstream Reference:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/2021-12_security_release/FAQ
Comment 1 Marian Rehak 2022-01-03 15:51:16 UTC 
Created mediawiki tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2036699]
Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2022-01-07 16:11:02 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-2021-44858
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