Path Traversal in MediaWiki
CVE-2011-0537
Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in (1) languages/Language.php and (2) includes/StubObject.php in MediaWiki 1.8.0 and other versions before 1.16.2, when running on Windows and possibly Novell Netware, allow remote attackers to include and execute arbitrary local PHP files via vectors related to a crafted language file and the Language::factory function.
Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.029 (86.6th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 87th percentile — 86.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.029 · newest: 0.029 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- MediaWiki — versions 1.8.0, 1.8.1, 1.8.2
- Microsoft Windows
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0273 (vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)
- osvdb.org/70799 (vdb-entry)
- bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/03/3 (mailing-list)
- download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.16/mediawiki-1.16.2.patch.gz (Patch)
- lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2011-February/000095.html (mailing-list, Patch)
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/01/4 (mailing-list)
- osvdb.org/70798 (vdb-entry)