CVE-2014-1610

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MediaWiki 1.22.x before 1.22.2, 1.21.x before 1.21.5, and 1.19.x before 1.19.11, when DjVu or PDF file upload support is

MediaWiki 1.22.x before 1.22.2, 1.21.x before 1.21.5, and 1.19.x before 1.19.11, when DjVu or PDF file upload support is enabled, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in (1) the page parameter to includes/media/DjVu.php.

(2) the w parameter (aka width field) to thumb.php, which is not properly handled by includes/media/PdfHandler_body.php.

and possibly unspecified vectors in (3) includes/media/Bitmap.php and (4) includes/media/ImageHandler.php.

MEDIUM · CVSS 6 EPSS 0.48041

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EPSS ≥ 0.10 - elevated exploitation probability
EPSS percentile: top 2% of all CVEs by exploitation likelihood
Public exploit or PoC is available

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Weakness Classification

CWE-20Improper Input Validation

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Affected Products & Versions

mediawikiall versions

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Public Exploits & PoCs

remoteMediaWiki - 'Thumb.php' Remote Command Execution (Metasploit)verified
webappsMediaWiki 1.22.1 PdfHandler - Remote Code Executionverified
pocwww.exploit-db.com · 31329www.exploit-db.com

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Detection Rules (IDS/IPS)

et-openET WEB_SPECIFIC_APPS MediaWiki thumb.php RCEattempted-admin

Open rulesets (ET Open, Snort Community, abuse.ch) link to source. Commercial rulesets are reference-only.

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Scoring & Timeline

MEDIUM · CVSS v2 (legacy) · cve@mitre.org

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v2 Vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Published to NVD30 Jan 2014 · 11:55 PM

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References & Sources

Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/127942.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/127948.html

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2014-January/000140.htmlVendor Advisory

http://osvdb.org/102630

http://secunia.com/advisories/56695Vendor Advisory

http://secunia.com/advisories/57472

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http://www.checkpoint.com/defense/advisories/public/2014/cpai-26-jan.html

http://www.checkpoint.com/threatcloud-central/articles/2014-01-28-tc-researchers-discover.html

http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2891

http://www.osvdb.org/102631

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65223

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029707

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/attachment.cgi?id=14361&action=diff

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/attachment.cgi?id=14384&action=diff

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60339

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/110069/Vendor Advisory

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/110069/2/includes/media/Bitmap.php

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/110215/

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