CVE-2008-5687

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

MediaWiki 1.11, and other versions before 1.13.3, does not properly protect against the download of backups of deleted images, which might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via requests for files in images/deleted/.

MediaWiki 1.11, and other versions before 1.13.3, does not properly protect against the download of backups of deleted images, which might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via requests for files in images/deleted/.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N).

Overview

Type

MediaWiki

First reported 16 years ago

2008-12-19 17:30:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-08-08 01:33:00

Affected Software

MediaWiki 1.11

1.11

MediaWiki 1.11.1

1.11.1

MediaWiki 1.11.2

1.11.2

MediaWiki 1.12.0

1.12.0

MediaWiki 1.12.0 Release Candidate 1

1.12.0

MediaWiki 1.12.1

1.12.1

MediaWiki 1.12.2

1.12.2

MediaWiki 1.12.3

1.12.3

MediaWiki 1.13.0

1.13.0

MediaWiki 1.13.0 Release Candidate 1

1.13.0

MediaWiki 1.13.0 Release Candidate 2

1.13.0

MediaWiki 1.13.1

1.13.1

MediaWiki 1.13.2

1.13.2

References

[mediawiki-announce] 20081215 MediaWiki 1.13.3, 1.12.2, 1.6.11 security update

33349

Vendor Advisory

mediawiki-images-info-disclosure(47678)

FEDORA-2008-11688

FEDORA-2008-11802

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