CVE-2025-32697 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Improper Preservation of Permissions vulnerability in Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki. This vulnerability is associated with program files includes/editpage/IntroMessageBuilder.Php, includes/Permissions/PermissionManager.Php, includes/Permissions/RestrictionStore.Php. This issue affects MediaWiki: before 1.42.6, 1.43.1.

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Attack Requirements None

User Interaction Passive

Vulnerable System Confidentiality Impact None

Vulnerable System Integrity Impact None

Vulnerable System Availability Impact None

Subsequent System Confidentiality Impact None

Subsequent System Integrity Impact None

Subsequent System Availability Impact None

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

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References

Link	Providers
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T140010
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T24521
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T62109

History

Thu, 10 Apr 2025 19:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Thu, 10 Apr 2025 18:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Description		Improper Preservation of Permissions vulnerability in Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki. This vulnerability is associated with program files includes/editpage/IntroMessageBuilder.Php, includes/Permissions/PermissionManager.Php, includes/Permissions/RestrictionStore.Php. This issue affects MediaWiki: before 1.42.6, 1.43.1.
Title		Cascading protection is not preventing file reversions
Weaknesses		CWE-281
References		https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T140010 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T24521 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T62109
Metrics		cvssV4_0 `{'score': 0, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/RE:M/U:Green'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: wikimedia-foundation

Published: 2025-04-10T18:29:17.482Z

Updated: 2025-04-10T19:05:48.098Z

Reserved: 2025-04-09T12:54:49.385Z

Link: CVE-2025-32697

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-04-10T19:05:40.269Z

NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2025-04-10T19:16:01.547

Modified: 2025-04-11T15:39:52.920

Link: CVE-2025-32697

Redhat

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