medium5.3
CVE-2020-35480
An issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.35.1.
Impact
An issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.35.1. Missing users (accounts that don't exist) and hidden users (accounts that have been explicitly hidden due to being abusive, or similar) that the viewer cannot see are handled differently, exposing sensitive information about the hidden status to unprivileged viewers. This exists on various code paths.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Mediawiki | Mediawiki | before 1.35.1 |
| Debian | Debian Linux | Versions 9.0, 10.0 |
| Fedoraproject | Fedora | Version 33 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00034.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/STT5Z4A3BCXVH3WIPICWU2FP4IPIMUPC/
- https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2020-December/000268.html
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T120883
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4816
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00034.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/STT5Z4A3BCXVH3WIPICWU2FP4IPIMUPC/
- https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2020-December/000268.html
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T120883
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4816