CVE-2019-18611

Summary

CVECVE-2019-18611
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-10-29 19:15:00 UTC
Updated2019-10-31 12:12:00 UTC
DescriptionAn issue was discovered in the CheckUser extension through 1.34 for MediaWiki. Certain sensitive information within oversighted edit summaries made available via the MediaWiki API was potentially visible to users with various levels of access to this extension. Said users should not have been able to view these oversighted edit summaries via the MediaWiki API.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-200

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Mediawiki Checkuser All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/Ie0aa0df2b3f03d8b910733f1b5e600a0dc978765 MISC gerrit.wikimedia.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
⚓ T234862 Do not show oversighted edit summaries in CheckUser API (CVE-2019-18611) MISC phabricator.wikimedia.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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