VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2017-0372

medium
Published — · Modified —
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.5

Description

Parameters injection in the SyntaxHighlight extension of Mediawiki before 1.23.16, 1.27.3 and 1.28.2 might result in multiple vulnerabilities.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Metasploit modules

exploit_multi/http/mediawiki_syntaxhighlight rank 400
MediaWiki SyntaxHighlight extension option injection vulnerability
Source fetch failed: fetch_error — view the original via the link above.

OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed1.28.2-1
debian debianbookwormfixed1:1.27.3-1
debian debianbullseyefixed1:1.27.3-1
debian debianforkyfixed1:1.27.3-1
debian debiansidfixed1:1.27.3-1
debian debiantrixiefixed1:1.27.3-1

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.