Vulnerabilities > CVE-2011-4360 - Information Exposure vulnerability in multiple products
Attack vector
UNKNOWN Attack complexity
UNKNOWN Privileges required
UNKNOWN Confidentiality impact
UNKNOWN Integrity impact
UNKNOWN Availability impact
UNKNOWN Summary
MediaWiki before 1.17.1 allows remote attackers to obtain the page titles of all restricted pages via a series of requests involving the (1) curid or (2) oldid parameter.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Subverting Environment Variable Values The attacker directly or indirectly modifies environment variables used by or controlling the target software. The attacker's goal is to cause the target software to deviate from its expected operation in a manner that benefits the attacker.
- Footprinting An attacker engages in probing and exploration activity to identify constituents and properties of the target. Footprinting is a general term to describe a variety of information gathering techniques, often used by attackers in preparation for some attack. It consists of using tools to learn as much as possible about the composition, configuration, and security mechanisms of the targeted application, system or network. Information that might be collected during a footprinting effort could include open ports, applications and their versions, network topology, and similar information. While footprinting is not intended to be damaging (although certain activities, such as network scans, can sometimes cause disruptions to vulnerable applications inadvertently) it may often pave the way for more damaging attacks.
- Exploiting Trust in Client (aka Make the Client Invisible) An attack of this type exploits a programs' vulnerabilities in client/server communication channel authentication and data integrity. It leverages the implicit trust a server places in the client, or more importantly, that which the server believes is the client. An attacker executes this type of attack by placing themselves in the communication channel between client and server such that communication directly to the server is possible where the server believes it is communicating only with a valid client. There are numerous variations of this type of attack.
- Browser Fingerprinting An attacker carefully crafts small snippets of Java Script to efficiently detect the type of browser the potential victim is using. Many web-based attacks need prior knowledge of the web browser including the version of browser to ensure successful exploitation of a vulnerability. Having this knowledge allows an attacker to target the victim with attacks that specifically exploit known or zero day weaknesses in the type and version of the browser used by the victim. Automating this process via Java Script as a part of the same delivery system used to exploit the browser is considered more efficient as the attacker can supply a browser fingerprinting method and integrate it with exploit code, all contained in Java Script and in response to the same web page request by the browser.
- Session Credential Falsification through Prediction This attack targets predictable session ID in order to gain privileges. The attacker can predict the session ID used during a transaction to perform spoofing and session hijacking.
Nessus
| NASL family | Debian Local Security Checks |
| NASL id | DEBIAN_DSA-2366.NASL |
| description | Several problems have been discovered in MediaWiki, a website engine for collaborative work. - CVE-2011-1578 CVE-2011-1587 Masato Kinugawa discovered a cross-site scripting (XSS) issue, which affects Internet Explorer clients only, and only version 6 and earlier. Web server configuration changes are required to fix this issue. Upgrading MediaWiki will only be sufficient for people who use Apache with AllowOverride enabled. For details of the required configuration changes, see the upstream announcements. - CVE-2011-1579 Wikipedia user Suffusion of Yellow discovered a CSS validation error in the wikitext parser. This is an XSS issue for Internet Explorer clients, and a privacy loss issue for other clients since it allows the embedding of arbitrary remote images. - CVE-2011-1580 MediaWiki developer Happy-Melon discovered that the transwiki import feature neglected to perform access control checks on form submission. The transwiki import feature is disabled by default. If it is enabled, it allows wiki pages to be copied from a remote wiki listed in $wgImportSources. The issue means that any user can trigger such an import to occur. - CVE-2011-4360 Alexandre Emsenhuber discovered an issue where page titles on private wikis could be exposed bypassing different page ids to index.php. In the case of the user not having correct permissions, they will now be redirected to Special:BadTitle. - CVE-2011-4361 Tim Starling discovered that action=ajax requests were dispatched to the relevant function without any read permission checks being done. This could have led to data leakage on private wikis. |
| last seen | 2020-03-17 |
| modified | 2012-01-12 |
| plugin id | 57506 |
| published | 2012-01-12 |
| reporter | This script is Copyright (C) 2012-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. |
| source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/57506 |
| title | Debian DSA-2366-1 : mediawiki - multiple vulnerabilities |
| code | |
References
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2011-November/000104.html
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/29/12
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/29/6
- http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2366
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=758171
- https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32276
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2011-November/000104.html
- https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32276
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=758171
- http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2366
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/29/6
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/29/12