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CVE-2014-9487

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-10-17 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-611

Description

The getid3 library in MediaWiki before 1.24.1, 1.23.8, 1.22.15 and 1.19.23 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files, cause a denial of service, or possibly have other impact via an XML External Entity (XXE) attack. NOTE: Related to CVE-2014-2053.

Affected products

• Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki: 1.19, 1.19-beta_1, 1.19-beta_2, 1.19.0, 1.19.1, 1.19.2 (+45)

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/03/13
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1175828
• https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2014-December/000173.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201502-04
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/03/13
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1175828
• https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2014-December/000173.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201502-04

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