An issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.35.1. Missing users (accounts that don't exist) and hidden users (accounts that have been explicitly hidden due to being abusive, or similar) that the viewer cannot see are handled differently, exposing sensitive information about the hidden status to unprivileged viewers. This exists on various code paths.
References
Link | Resource |
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https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00034.html | Mailing List Third Party Advisory |
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/STT5Z4A3BCXVH3WIPICWU2FP4IPIMUPC/ | |
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2020-December/000268.html | Mailing List Release Notes Vendor Advisory |
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T120883 | Permissions Required |
https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4816 | Mailing List Third Party Advisory |
History
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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2020-12-18T07:40:38
Updated: 2020-12-27T03:06:16
Reserved: 2020-12-16T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2020-35480
JSON object: View
NVD Information
Status : Modified
Published: 2020-12-18T08:15:15.437
Modified: 2023-11-07T03:21:55.303
Link: CVE-2020-35480
JSON object: View
Redhat Information
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CWE