Vulnerabilities > CVE-2014-9481 - Information Exposure vulnerability in Mediawiki

047910
CVSS 5.9 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
HIGH
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
HIGH
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
NONE
network
high complexity
mediawiki
CWE-200
nessus

Summary

The Scribunto extension for MediaWiki allows remote attackers to obtain the rollback token and possibly other sensitive information via a crafted module, related to unstripping special page HTML.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Mediawiki
289

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 familyGentoo Local Security Checks
NASL idGENTOO_GLSA-201502-04.NASL
descriptionThe remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201502-04 (MediaWiki: Multiple vulnerabilities) Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in MediaWiki. Please review the CVE identifiers and MediaWiki announcement referenced below for details. Impact : A remote attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process, create a Denial of Service condition, obtain sensitive information, bypass security restrictions, and inject arbitrary web script or HTML. Workaround : There is no known workaround at this time.
last seen2020-06-01
modified2020-06-02
plugin id81227
published2015-02-09
reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2015-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/81227
titleGLSA-201502-04 : MediaWiki: Multiple vulnerabilities
code
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 201502-04.
#
# The advisory text is Copyright (C) 2001-2019 Gentoo Foundation, Inc.
# and licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike 
# license. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(81227);
  script_version("1.5");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/02/07  9:34:55");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2013-6451", "CVE-2013-6452", "CVE-2013-6453", "CVE-2013-6454", "CVE-2013-6472", "CVE-2014-1610", "CVE-2014-2242", "CVE-2014-2243", "CVE-2014-2244", "CVE-2014-2665", "CVE-2014-2853", "CVE-2014-5241", "CVE-2014-5242", "CVE-2014-5243", "CVE-2014-7199", "CVE-2014-7295", "CVE-2014-9276", "CVE-2014-9277", "CVE-2014-9475", "CVE-2014-9476", "CVE-2014-9477", "CVE-2014-9478", "CVE-2014-9479", "CVE-2014-9480", "CVE-2014-9481", "CVE-2014-9487", "CVE-2014-9507");
  script_xref(name:"GLSA", value:"201502-04");

  script_name(english:"GLSA-201502-04 : MediaWiki: Multiple vulnerabilities");
  script_summary(english:"Checks for updated package(s) in /var/db/pkg");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:
"The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related
patches."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201502-04
(MediaWiki: Multiple vulnerabilities)

    Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in MediaWiki. Please
      review the CVE identifiers and MediaWiki announcement referenced below
      for details.
  
Impact :

    A remote attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code with the
      privileges of the process, create a Denial of Service condition, obtain
      sensitive information, bypass security restrictions, and inject arbitrary
      web script or HTML.
  
Workaround :

    There is no known workaround at this time."
  );
  # https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2014-June/000155.html
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?4ef35312"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201502-04"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:
"All MediaWiki 1.23 users should upgrade to the latest version:
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=www-apps/mediawiki-1.23.8'
    All MediaWiki 1.22 users should upgrade to the latest version:
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=www-apps/mediawiki-1.22.15'
    All MediaWiki 1.19 users should upgrade to the latest version:
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=www-apps/mediawiki-1.19.23'"
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_framework_core", value:"true");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"d2_elliot_name", value:"MediaWiki thumb.php page Parameter Remote Shell Command Injection");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_framework_d2_elliot", value:"true");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"metasploit_name", value:'MediaWiki Thumb.php Remote Command Execution');
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_framework_metasploit", value:"true");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:mediawiki");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:gentoo:linux");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2014/01/30");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2015/02/07");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2015/02/09");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2015-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
  script_family(english:"Gentoo Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Gentoo/release", "Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("qpkg.inc");

if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Gentoo/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Gentoo");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);


flag = 0;

if (qpkg_check(package:"www-apps/mediawiki", unaffected:make_list("ge 1.23.8", "rge 1.22.15", "rge 1.19.23"), vulnerable:make_list("lt 1.23.8"))) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:qpkg_report_get());
  else security_hole(0);
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  tested = qpkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "MediaWiki");
}