CVE-2016-6337 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

Published: 2017-04-20

Score: 7.5 High

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

n/a

n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.27.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2016-7264	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.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00339.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2016-August/000195.html
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139670

History

No history.

Subscriptions

Mediawiki Mediawiki

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2017-04-20T17:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-06T01:29:19.198Z

Reserved: 2016-07-26T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2016-6337

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-04-20T17:59:00.790

Modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033

Link: CVE-2016-6337

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-284

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