CVE-2016-6337 — Improper Access Control in Mediawiki

CWE-284 — Improper Access Control5 documents5 sources
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.3%
top 43.29%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
MediawikiDebian Mediawiki
Timeline
PublishedApr 20
Latest updateMay 17

Description

MediaWiki 1.27.x before 1.27.1 might allow remote attackers to bypass intended session access restrictions by leveraging a call to the UserGetRights function after Session::getAllowedUserRights.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:NExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages3 packages

▶debiandebian/mediawiki< mediawiki 1:1.27.1-1 (bookworm)
▶Debianmediawiki/mediawiki< 1:1.27.1-1+3

Patches

Patch: lists.wikimedia.org ↗Patch: phabricator.wikimedia.org ↗Patch: lists.wikimedia.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-3c2m-8jfj-576j: MediaWiki 1↗2022-05-17
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OSV
CVE-2016-6337: MediaWiki 1↗2017-04-20
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📋Vendor Advisories

1
Debian
CVE-2016-6337: mediawiki - MediaWiki 1.27.x before 1.27.1 might allow remote attackers to bypass intended s...↗2016
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2016-6337 mediawiki: Bypassing access restrictions↗2017-04-21
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