CVE-2016-6337

CVSS V2 Medium 5 CVSS V3 High 7.5
Description
MediaWiki 1.27.x before 1.27.1 might allow remote attackers to bypass intended session access restrictions by leveraging a call to the UserGetRights function after Session::getAllowedUserRights.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2016-6337
  • Assigner
  • secalert@redhat.com
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Analyzed
  • Published Version
  • 2017-04-20T17:59:00
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2017-04-24T20:25:27
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-284 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/284.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.27.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Integrity Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Availability Impact
  • NONE
  • Base Score
  • 5
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 10
  • Impact Score
  • 2.9
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.0
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
  • Attack Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • NONE
  • User Interaction
  • NONE
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • NONE
  • Base Score
  • 7.5
  • Base Severity
  • HIGH
  • Exploitability Score
  • 3.9
  • Impact Score
  • 3.6
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139670 Patch Third Party Advisory
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2016-August/000195.html Mailing List Patch Vendor Advisory
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6337
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6337
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 09:44:22 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-02 16:03:19 2017-04-20T17:59Z 2017-04-20T17:59:00 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-02 16:03:19 2017-04-24T20:25:27 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-02 16:03:19 Analyzed Vulnerability Status updated