Description (CNA)
An issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.31.13 and 1.32.x through 1.35.x before 1.35.2. When using the MediaWiki API to "protect" a page, a user is currently able to protect to a higher level than they currently have permissions for.
Affected (CNA)
| Vendor / product | Versions |
|---|---|
| n/a / n/a | affected n/a |
CWE
No CWE identifiers supplied.
References
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T270713
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4889
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/26UJGHF7LJDOCQN6A3Z4PM7PYRKENJHE/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2OMSV7B2TCFBOCICN3B4SMQP5HVRJQIT/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/05/msg00003.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/05/msg00006.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-40
ADP enrichment
No English description supplied.
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T270713
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4889
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/26UJGHF7LJDOCQN6A3Z4PM7PYRKENJHE/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2OMSV7B2TCFBOCICN3B4SMQP5HVRJQIT/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/05/msg00003.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/05/msg00006.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-40