CVE-2022-41765 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

An issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.35.8, 1.36.x and 1.37.x before 1.37.5, and 1.38.x before 1.38.3. HTMLUserTextField exposes the existence of hidden users.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00151.

Exploitation none

Automatable yes

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Mediawiki	Mediawiki

Configuration 1 [-]

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
Debian DLA	DLA-3148-1	mediawiki security update
Debian DSA	DSA-5246-1	mediawiki security update
EUVD	EUVD-2022-44936	An issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.35.8, 1.36.x and 1.37.x before 1.37.5, and 1.38.x before 1.38.3. HTMLUserTextField exposes the existence of hidden users.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-41765
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T309894
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-24
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-41765

History

Mon, 14 Apr 2025 15:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2022-12-26T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-04-14T14:25:23.085Z

Reserved: 2022-09-29T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-41765

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T12:49:43.832Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-12-26T06:15:11.007

Modified: 2025-04-14T15:15:21.573

Link: CVE-2022-41765

Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2022-12-26T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2022-41765 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

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