Name | CVE-2021-41801 |
Description | The ReplaceText extension through 1.41 for MediaWiki has Incorrect Access Control. When a user is blocked after submitting a replace job, the job is still run, even if it may be run at a later time (due to the job queue backlog) |
Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
References | DSA-4979-1 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
---|---|---|---|
mediawiki (PTS) | buster | 1:1.31.16-1+deb10u2 | fixed |
buster (security) | 1:1.31.16-1+deb10u4 | fixed | |
bullseye (security), bullseye | 1:1.35.8-1~deb11u1 | fixed | |
bookworm, sid | 1:1.39.2-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
mediawiki | source | stretch | (not affected) | |||
mediawiki | source | buster | 1:1.31.16-1~deb10u1 | DSA-4979-1 | ||
mediawiki | source | bullseye | 1:1.35.4-1~deb11u1 | DSA-4979-1 | ||
mediawiki | source | (unstable) | 1:1.35.4-1 |
[stretch] - mediawiki <not-affected> (The vulnerable code was introduced later)
https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/2IFS5CM2YV4VMSODPX3J2LFHKSEWVFV5/
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T279090