CVE-2021-45471 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

In MediaWiki through 1.37, blocked IP addresses are allowed to edit EntitySchema items.

Published: 2021-12-24

Score: 5.3 Medium

EPSS: 1.2% Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

n/a

n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 2 [-]

cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:35:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2021-32237	In MediaWiki through 1.37, blocked IP addresses are allowed to edit EntitySchema items.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.01242.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/Iac86cf63bd014ef99e83dccfce9b8942e15d2bf9
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/Id9af124427bcd1e85301d2140a38bf47bbc5622c
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/Z7JNQA53K675TQBBJPZRAG5ZT6XES3IS/
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-45471
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T296578
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-45471

History

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Subscriptions

Fedoraproject Fedora

Mediawiki Mediawiki

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2021-12-24T01:04:20.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-04T04:39:21.138Z

Reserved: 2021-12-24T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2021-45471

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-12-24T02:15:07.297

Modified: 2026-06-17T04:13:26.023

Link: CVE-2021-45471

Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2021-12-17T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2021-45471 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-863
Incorrect Authorization
NVD-CWE-noinfo

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