CVE-2015-2172

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Summary

CVECVE-2015-2172
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2015-03-30 14:59:07 UTC
Updated2026-05-06 22:30:45 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

Primary CVSS: v2.0 6.5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Problem Types: CWE-284 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
Single
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
Partial
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Dokuwiki Dokuwiki All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
missing permission check in ACL Plugin Remote API part · Issue #1056 · splitbrain/dokuwiki · GitHub af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 github.com Third Party Advisory
DokuWiki 'remote.php' Remote Privilege Escalation Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
oss-security - Re: CVE request: DokuWiki privilege escalation in RPC API af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.openwall.com Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
check permissions in ACL plugin's RPC API component. #1056 · splitbrain/dokuwiki@4970ad2 · GitHub af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 github.com Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: dokuwiki-0-0.24.20140929c.fc21 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.fedoraproject.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 22 Update: dokuwiki-0-0.24.20140929c.fc22 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.fedoraproject.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Mageia Advisory: MGASA-2015-0093 - Updated dokuwiki packages fix CVE-2015-2172 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 advisories.mageia.org Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: dokuwiki-0-0.24.20140929c.fc20 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.fedoraproject.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
changes [DokuWiki] af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.dokuwiki.org Vendor Advisory
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