CVE-2020-35480

Description

An issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.35.1. Missing users (accounts that dont 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.

Risk Information

Base Score

5.3

MODERATE

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

EPSS Score

Exploitation Probability

0.344

Associated Vulnerability

Vulnerability	OS Platform
mediawiki security update(DSA-4816-1) mediawiki_1.31.12-1~deb10u1_all.deb	Linux

Patch Details

No records found

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234