CVE-2014-1610
MEDIUMEPSS 99th pctlDescription
MediaWiki 1.22.x before 1.22.2, 1.21.x before 1.21.5, and 1.19.x before 1.19.11, when DjVu or PDF file upload support is enabled, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in (1) the page parameter to includes/media/DjVu.php; (2) the w parameter (aka width field) to thumb.php, which is not properly handled by includes/media/PdfHandler_body.php; and possibly unspecified vectors in (3) includes/media/Bitmap.php and (4) includes/media/ImageHandler.php.
CVSS v2 Vector
No CVSS vector data available.
Exploit Intelligence
Very high risk: more likely to be exploited than 99% of all known CVEs.
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/127942.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/127948.html
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2014-January/000140.html
- http://osvdb.org/102630
- http://secunia.com/advisories/56695
- http://secunia.com/advisories/57472
- http://www.checkpoint.com/defense/advisories/public/2014/cpai-26-jan.html
- http://www.checkpoint.com/threatcloud-central/articles/2014-01-28-tc-researchers-discover.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2891
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/31329/
- http://www.osvdb.org/102631
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65223
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029707
- https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/attachment.cgi?id=14361&action=diff
- https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/attachment.cgi?id=14384&action=diff
- https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60339
- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/110069/
- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/110069/2/includes/media/Bitmap.php
- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/110215/
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