CVE-2020-29007 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The Score extension through 0.3.0 for MediaWiki has a remote code execution vulnerability due to improper sandboxing of the GNU LilyPond executable. This allows any user with an ability to edit articles (potentially including unauthenticated anonymous users) to execute arbitrary Scheme or shell code by using crafted {{Image data to generate musical scores containing malicious code.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.05726.

Exploitation poc

Automatable yes

Technical Impact total

Vendors	Products
Mediawiki Subscribe	Score Subscribe

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2020-21389	The Score extension through 0.3.0 for MediaWiki has a remote code execution vulnerability due to improper sandboxing of the GNU LilyPond executable. This allows any user with an ability to edit articles (potentially including unauthenticated anonymous users) to execute arbitrary Scheme or shell code by using crafted {{Image data to generate musical scores containing malicious code.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://github.com/seqred-s-a/cve-2020-29007
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T257062
https://seqred.pl/en/cve-2020-29007-remote-code-execution-in-mediawiki-score/
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Score
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Score/2021_security_advisory

History

Thu, 06 Feb 2025 17:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Projects

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2023-04-15T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-02-06T16:18:07.233Z

Reserved: 2020-11-24T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2020-29007

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-04T16:48:01.543Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-04-15T22:15:06.977

Modified: 2025-02-06T17:15:12.007

Link: CVE-2020-29007

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-94

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