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CVE-2022-47927
- Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: yes
- Published: 2023-01-12 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-732
Description
An issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.35.9, 1.36.x through 1.38.x before 1.38.5, and 1.39.x before 1.39.1. When installing with a pre-existing data directory that has weak permissions, the SQLite files are created with file mode 0644, i.e., world readable to local users. These files include credentials data.
Affected products
- Fedoraproject Fedora: 37
- Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki: before 1.35.9; from 1.36.0 before 1.38.5; 1.39.0, 1.39.0-rc0, 1.39.0-rc1 — fixed in 1.35.9, 1.38.5
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki 1.35.9, 1.38.5. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
References
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/07/msg00011.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AP65YEN762IBNQPOYGUVLTQIDLM5XD2A/
- https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/mediawiki-announce%40lists.wikimedia.org/thread/UEMW64LVEH3BEXCJV43CVS6XPYURKWU3/
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T322637
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-24
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/07/msg00011.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AP65YEN762IBNQPOYGUVLTQIDLM5XD2A/
- https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/mediawiki-announce%40lists.wikimedia.org/thread/UEMW64LVEH3BEXCJV43CVS6XPYURKWU3/
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T322637
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-24
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