wikimedia/mediawiki · Security
X-Forwarded-For header allows brute-forcing autoblocked IP addresses
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-5vj8-g3qg-4qh6
- CVE ID
- CVE-2023-29141
- Severity
- critical
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 9.8 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS v3
- 9.8 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Description
An issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.35.10, 1.36.x through 1.38.x before 1.38.6, and 1.39.x before 1.39.3. An auto-block can occur for an untrusted X-Forwarded-For header.
CWEs
- CWE-444 · Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests ('HTTP Request/Response Smuggling')
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-29141 ↗
- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/mediawiki/core/+/REL1_39/RELEASE-NOTES-1.39 ↗
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T285159 ↗
- https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5447 ↗
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/08/msg00029.html ↗
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/ONWHGOBFD6CQAEGOP5O375XAP2N6RUHT ↗
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/ZGK4NZPIJ5ET2ANRZOUYPCRIB5I64JR7 ↗
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.35#MediaWiki_1.35.10 ↗
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.38#MediaWiki_1.38.6 ↗
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.39#MediaWiki_1.39.3 ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5vj8-g3qg-4qh6 ↗