CVE-2016-6337 (GCVE-0-2016-6337)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-04-20 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 01:29
VLAI
Summary
MediaWiki 1.27.x before 1.27.1 might allow remote attackers to bypass intended session access restrictions by leveraging a call to the UserGetRights function after Session::getAllowedUserRights.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139670 x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-a… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
Date Public
2016-08-23 00:00
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