SNS Vulnerability

Fedora Security Update Fixes MediaWiki Two Input Validation Vulnerabilities

Description

Two vulnerabilities have been identified in Fedora, which could be exploited by attackers to gain knowledge of sensitive information or bypass restrictions.
The first issue is caused by an input validation error which could allow cross site scripting attacks.
The second vulnerability is caused by an error related to the "$wgBlockDisablesLogin" feature, which could allow unauthenticated attackers to gain certain privileges.

Vulnerable Products

Vulnerable Software:
Fedora 15

Solution

Upgrade the affected package (mediawiki) : http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/

CVE

CVE-2011-1765

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/060435.html
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2011-May/000098.html

Vulnerability Manager Detection

IPS Protection

ASQ Engine alarm	Available Since
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'iframe' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'meta' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious tag with event found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'applet' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Phishing : suspicious 'div' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'style' attribute found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'img' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Phishing : suspicious 'a' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : cookie access attempt using script language found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'embed' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'object' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Phishing : suspicious 'form' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : javascript code found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : evasion attempt using tag characters encoding in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'style' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Phishing : suspicious 'link' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : 'script' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : 'location' javascript object found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'div' tag found in URL	3.2.0

Risk level

Low

Vulnerability First Public Report Date

2011-05-19

Target Type

Server

Possible exploit

Local & Remote