CVE-2023-29141 (GCVE-0-2023-29141)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-03-31 00:00 – Updated: 2025-02-18 16:02
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
An issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.35.10, 1.36.x through 1.38.x before 1.38.6, and 1.39.x before 1.39.3. An auto-block can occur for an untrusted X-Forwarded-For header.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
SSVC
Exploitation: poc
Automatable: yes
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-02-18 16:02 UTC
CWE
- n/a
- CWE-444 - Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests ('HTTP Request/Response Smuggling')
Assigner
References
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| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T285159 | |
| https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/me… | |
| https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac… | vendor-advisory |
| https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac… | vendor-advisory |
| https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5447 | vendor-advisory |
| https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023… | mailing-list |
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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