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MediaWiki XXE Vulnerability - Windows

🗓️ 09 Nov 2017 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2017 Greenbone AGType 
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MediaWiki XXE Vulnerability on Windows. Allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files, cause a denial of service, or possibly have other impact via an XML external entity (XXE) attack

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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only

if( description )
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.113047");
  script_version("2024-07-16T05:05:43+0000");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2024-07-16 05:05:43 +0000 (Tue, 16 Jul 2024)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2017-11-09 12:50:51 +0100 (Thu, 09 Nov 2017)");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"7.5");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
  script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
  script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
  script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2017-11-08 17:09:00 +0000 (Wed, 08 Nov 2017)");

  script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner");

  script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2014-9487");

  script_name("MediaWiki XXE Vulnerability - Windows");

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);

  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2017 Greenbone AG");
  script_family("Web application abuses");
  script_dependencies("gb_mediawiki_http_detect.nasl", "os_detection.nasl");
  script_mandatory_keys("mediawiki/detected", "Host/runs_windows");

  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"The getid3 library in MediaWiki before 1.24.1, 1.23.8, 1.22.15
  and 1.19.23 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files, cause a denial of service (DoS), or
  possibly have other impact via an XML external entity (XXE) attack.");
  script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"The script checks if the vulnerable version is installed on the host.");
  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Upgrade MediaWiki to 1.24.1, 1.23.8, 1.22.15 or 1.19.23 respectively.");

  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1175828");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/03/13");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2014-December/000173.html");

  exit(0);
}

CPE = "cpe:/a:mediawiki:mediawiki";

include( "host_details.inc" );
include( "version_func.inc" );

if( ! port = get_app_port( cpe: CPE ) ) exit( 0 );
if( ! version = get_app_version( cpe: CPE, port: port ) ) exit( 0 );

if( version_is_equal( version: version, test_version: "1.24.0" ) ) {
  report = report_fixed_ver( installed_version: version, fixed_version: "1.24.1" );
  security_message( data: report, port: port );
  exit( 0 );
}

if( version_in_range( version: version, test_version: "1.23.0", test_version2: "1.23.7" ) ) {
  report = report_fixed_ver( installed_version: version, fixed_version: "1.23.8" );
  security_message( data: report, port: port );
  exit( 0 );
}

if( version_in_range( version: version, test_version: "1.22.0", test_version2: "1.22.14" ) ) {
  report = report_fixed_ver( installed_version: version, fixed_version: "1.22.15" );
  security_message( data: report, port: port );
  exit( 0 );
}

if( version_in_range( version: version, test_version: "1.19.0", test_version2: "1.19.22" ) ) {
  report = report_fixed_ver( installed_version: version, fixed_version: "1.19.23" );
  security_message( data: report, port: port );
  exit( 0 );
}

exit( 99 );

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