CVE-2023-29141 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

An issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.35.10, 1.36.x through 1.38.x before 1.38.6, and 1.39.x before 1.39.3. An auto-block can occur for an untrusted X-Forwarded-For header.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation poc

Automatable yes

Technical Impact total

Vendors	Products
Fedoraproject	Fedora
Mediawiki	Mediawiki

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki::::::::

Configuration 2 [-]

cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:37:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

No data.

References

Link	Providers
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/mediawiki/core/+/REL1_39/RELEASE-NOTES-1.39
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/08/msg00029.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ONWHGOBFD6CQAEGOP5O375XAP2N6RUHT/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZGK4NZPIJ5ET2ANRZOUYPCRIB5I64JR7/
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-29141
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T285159
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-29141
https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5447

History

Tue, 18 Feb 2025 17:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Tue, 18 Feb 2025 16:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Weaknesses		CWE-444

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2023-03-31T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-02-18T16:02:42.792Z

Reserved: 2023-03-31T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2023-29141

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T14:00:15.869Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-03-31T19:15:07.540

Modified: 2025-02-18T16:15:16.077

Link: CVE-2023-29141

Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2023-03-31T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2023-29141 - Bugzilla

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