CVE-2016-6336 - Improper Access Control

Severity

40%

Complexity

80%

Confidentiality

48%

MediaWiki before 1.23.15, 1.26.x before 1.26.4, and 1.27.x before 1.27.1 allows remote authenticated users with undelete permissions to bypass intended suppressrevision and deleterevision restrictions and remove the revision deletion status of arbitrary file revisions by using Special:Undelete.

MediaWiki before 1.23.15, 1.26.x before 1.26.4, and 1.27.x before 1.27.1 allows remote authenticated users with undelete permissions to bypass intended suppressrevision and deleterevision restrictions and remove the revision deletion status of arbitrary file revisions by using Special:Undelete.

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 6.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N).

Overview

First reported 7 years ago

2017-04-20 17:59:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-04-24 20:25:00

Affected Software

Mediawiki

MediaWiki 1.26.0

1.26.0

MediaWiki 1.26.1

1.26.1

MediaWiki 1.26.2

1.26.2

MediaWiki 1.26.3

1.26.3

MediaWiki 1.26.4

1.26.4

MediaWiki 1.27.0

1.27.0

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1369613

Issue Tracking

[MediaWiki-announce] 20160823 Security Release - 1.27.1, 1.26.4, 1.23.15

Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T132926

Patch, Third Party Advisory

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