CVE-2021-30159
Users can bypass intended restrictions on deleting pages in certain "fast double move" situations.
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.56%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
An issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.31.12 and 1.32.x through 1.35.x before 1.35.2. Users can bypass intended restrictions on deleting pages in certain "fast double move" situations. MovePage::isValidMoveTarget() uses FOR UPDATE, but it's only called if Title::getArticleID() returns non-zero with no special flags. Next, MovePage::moveToInternal() will delete the page if getArticleID(READ_LATEST) is non-zero. Therefore, if the page is missing in the replica DB, isValidMove() will return true, and then moveToInternal() will unconditionally delete the page if it can be found in the master.
- CVSS 3.1
- 4.3 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- EPSS
- 1.56% probability · 74th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Affected
- mediawiki/mediawiki · debian/debian linux · fedoraproject/fedora
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/05/msg00003.htmlThird Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/05/msg00006.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- 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://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T272386Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-40Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4889Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/05/msg00003.htmlThird Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/05/msg00006.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- 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://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T272386Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-40Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4889Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.