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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : mediawiki (MDVSA-2015:006)

🗓️ 09 Jan 2015 00:00:00Reported by TenableType 
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Mandriva Linux security update for mediawiki packages to fix cross-site scripting and CORS bypass vulnerabilities (MDVSA-2015:006

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Code
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300

#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
# extracted from Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2015:006. 
# The text itself is copyright (C) Mandriva S.A.
#

include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(80425);
  script_version("1.7");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/06");

  script_bugtraq_id(71775, 71776);
  script_xref(name:"MDVSA", value:"2015:006");

  script_name(english:"Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : mediawiki (MDVSA-2015:006)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:
"The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security
updates."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"Updated mediawiki packages fix security vulnerabilities :

In MediaWiki before 1.23.8, thumb.php outputs wikitext message as raw
HTML, which could lead to cross-site scripting. Permission to edit
MediaWiki namespace is required to exploit this.

In MediaWiki before 1.23.8, a malicious site can bypass CORS
restrictions in in API calls if it only included an allowed domain as
part of its name."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0555.html"
  );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected packages.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:mediawiki");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:mediawiki-mysql");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:mediawiki-pgsql");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:mediawiki-sqlite");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:mandriva:business_server:1");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2015/01/08");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2015/01/09");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2015-2021 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
  script_family(english:"Mandriva Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/cpu", "Host/Mandrake/release", "Host/Mandrake/rpm-list");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("rpm.inc");


if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Mandrake/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Mandriva / Mandake Linux");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Mandrake/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if (cpu !~ "^(amd64|i[3-6]86|x86_64)$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Mandriva / Mandrake Linux", cpu);


flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK-MBS1", reference:"mediawiki-1.23.8-1.mbs1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK-MBS1", reference:"mediawiki-mysql-1.23.8-1.mbs1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK-MBS1", reference:"mediawiki-pgsql-1.23.8-1.mbs1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK-MBS1", reference:"mediawiki-sqlite-1.23.8-1.mbs1")) flag++;


if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
  else security_warning(0);
  exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");

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