CVE-2015-2172

Summary

CVECVE-2015-2172
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2015-03-30 14:59:00 UTC
Updated2019-02-05 18:24:00 UTC
DescriptionDokuWiki before 2014-05-05d and before 2014-09-29c does not properly check permissions for the ACL plugins, which allows remote authenticated users to gain privileges and add or delete ACL rules via a request to the XMLRPC API.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-284

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Dokuwiki Dokuwiki All All All All
Application Dokuwiki Dokuwiki All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: dokuwiki-0-0.24.20140929c.fc21 FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: dokuwiki-0-0.24.20140929c.fc20 FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Mageia Advisory: MGASA-2015-0093 - Updated dokuwiki packages fix CVE-2015-2172 CONFIRM advisories.mageia.org Third Party Advisory
oss-security - Re: CVE request: DokuWiki privilege escalation in RPC API MLIST www.openwall.com Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
check permissions in ACL plugin's RPC API component. #1056 · splitbrain/dokuwiki@4970ad2 · GitHub CONFIRM github.com Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 22 Update: dokuwiki-0-0.24.20140929c.fc22 FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
missing permission check in ACL Plugin Remote API part · Issue #1056 · splitbrain/dokuwiki · GitHub CONFIRM github.com Third Party Advisory
changes [DokuWiki] CONFIRM www.dokuwiki.org Vendor Advisory
DokuWiki 'remote.php' Remote Privilege Escalation Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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