CVE-2024-29897: Information Disclosure (CVSS 4.9)

Description

CreateWiki is Miraheze's MediaWiki extension for requesting & creating wikis. It is possible for users with (delete) or (suppressrevision) on any wiki in the farm to access suppressed wiki requests by going to the request's entry on Special:RequestWikiQueue on the wiki where they have these rights. The same vulnerability was present briefly on the REST API before being quickly corrected in commit `6bc0685`. To our knowledge, the vulnerable commits of the REST API are not running in production anywhere. This vulnerability is fixed in 23415c17ffb4832667c06abcf1eadadefd4c8937.

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CVSS v3.1 Score

4.9

MEDIUM

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

Weakness Type (CWE)

CWE-200 CWE-200

References

Other References

https://github.com/miraheze/CreateWiki/security/advisories/GHSA-4rcf-3cj2-46mq https://github.com/miraheze/mw-config/commit/fb3e68bcef459e9cf2a415241b28042a6c9727e8 https://issue-tracker.miraheze.org/F3093343 https://issue-tracker.miraheze.org/T11999 https://github.com/miraheze/CreateWiki/security/advisories/GHSA-4rcf-3cj2-46mq https://github.com/miraheze/mw-config/commit/fb3e68bcef459e9cf2a415241b28042a6c9727e8 https://issue-tracker.miraheze.org/F3093343 https://issue-tracker.miraheze.org/T11999

Frequently Asked Questions

What is CVE-2024-29897? +

CreateWiki is Miraheze's MediaWiki extension for requesting & creating wikis. It is possible for users with (delete) or (suppressrevision) on any wiki in the farm to access suppressed wiki requests by going to the request's entry on Special:RequestWikiQueue on the wiki where they have these rights. The same vulnerability was present briefly on the REST API before being quickly corrected in commit `6bc0685`. To our knowledge, the vulnerable commits of the REST API are not running in production anywhere. This vulnerability is fixed in 23415c17ffb4832667c06abcf1eadadefd4c8937. It has a CVSS v3.1 base score of 4.9 (MEDIUM).

How severe is CVE-2024-29897? +

CVE-2024-29897 has a CVSS v3.1 score of 4.9 out of 10, rated MEDIUM. This is a medium-severity vulnerability that should be remediated as part of regular maintenance.

How do I check if I'm vulnerable to CVE-2024-29897? +

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