CVE-2008-5687

Publication date 19 December 2008

Last updated 24 July 2024

MediaWiki 1.11, and other versions before 1.13.3, does not properly protect against the download of backups of deleted images, which might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via requests for files in images/deleted/.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
mediawiki	9.10 karmic	Not affected
	9.04 jaunty	Not affected
	8.10 intrepid	Fixed 1:1.12.0-2ubuntu0.2
	8.04 LTS hardy	Fixed 1:1.11.2-2ubuntu0.2
	7.10 gutsy	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	6.06 LTS dapper	Ignored end of life

How can I get the fixes?
What do statuses mean?

Notes

mdeslaur

from debian: the CVE id description is wrong, this is fixed in 1.13.3

References

MITRE
NVD
Launchpad
Debian

Other references

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2008-December/000080.html
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-5687