Suppressed Information Exposed in Special:Investigate Feature
CVE-2024-40596

4.3MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor

MediaWiki
Status
Mediawiki
Vendor
CVE Published:
7 July 2024

What is CVE-2024-40596?

An issue was discovered in the CheckUser extension for MediaWiki through 1.42.1. The Special:Investigate feature can expose suppressed information for log events. (TimelineService does not support properly suppressing.)

References

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T326866

CVSS V3.1

Score:
4.3
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
Low
Integrity:
None
Availability:
Low
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

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