Vulnerability in mediawiki
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A vulnerability tracked as UBUNTU-CVE-2024-34506 has been found in mediawiki.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: apply the vendor's official patched release.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "mediawiki UBUNTU-CVE-2024-34506" on the vendor's site.
UBUNTU-CVE-2024-34506 (mediawiki)
Attack vector: remote (network-reachable) / unauthenticated / no user interaction
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
A vulnerability (unclassified) exists in mediawiki.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of mediawiki.
Severity: ?. Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to the patched release per vendor advisory.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'mediawiki' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1
Identify exposureidentify
grep -r 'mediawiki' . | grep -v node_modulesリポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で
mediawikiを grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。 -
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Post-deployment verificationverify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
Affected packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu:18.04:LTS | mediawiki |
All versions |
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| Ubuntu:Pro:20.04:LTS | mediawiki |
All versions |
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| Ubuntu:Pro:22.04:LTS | mediawiki |
All versions |
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Original description The description as published by the source.
An issue was discovered in includes/specials/SpecialMovePage.php in MediaWiki before 1.39.7, 1.40.x before 1.40.3, and 1.41.x before 1.41.1. If a user with the necessary rights to move the page opens Special:MovePage for a page with tens of thousands of subpages, then the page will exceed the maximum request time, leading to a denial of service.
Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV
References
- report ubuntu.com
- report cve.org
- report lists.wikimedia.org
- report phabricator.wikimedia.org
- report gerrit.wikimedia.org