Bug 903622 (CVE-2020-36649)

Summary:	<www-apps/mediawiki-{1.38.6,1.39.3}: multiple vulnerabilities
Product:	Gentoo Security	Reporter:	John Helmert III <ajak>
Component:	Vulnerabilities	Assignee:	Gentoo Security <security>
Status:	IN_PROGRESS ---
Severity:	minor	CC:	fordfrog, web-apps
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/mediawiki-announce@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/6UQBHI5FWLATD7QO7DI4YS54U7XSSLAN/
Whiteboard:	B3 [glsa?]
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:	903626
Bug Blocks:

Description John Helmert III archtester

2023-03-31 04:18:56 UTC

CVE-2020-36649 (https://vuldb.com/?id.218004):
https://github.com/mholt/PapaParse/commit/235a12758cd77266d2e98fd715f53536b34ad621
https://github.com/mholt/PapaParse/releases/tag/5.2.0

A vulnerability was found in mholt PapaParse up to 5.1.x. It has been classified as problematic. Affected is an unknown function of the file papaparse.js. The manipulation leads to inefficient regular expression complexity. Upgrading to version 5.2.0 is able to address this issue. The name of the patch is 235a12758cd77266d2e98fd715f53536b34ad621. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. The identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-218004.

A couple others with CVEs pending:

* (T285159, CVE-2023-PENDING) SECURITY: X-Forwarded-For header allows
brute-forcing autoblocked IP addresses.
* (T330086, CVE-2023-PENDING) SECURITY: OATHAuth allows replay attacks when
MediaWiki is configured without ObjectCache; Insecure Default Configuration.

Please bump to MediaWiki-1.38.6 and 1.39.3.

Comment 1 Miroslav Šulc gentoo-dev

2023-04-01 17:55:00 UTC

the tree is clean now, you can proceed.

Comment 2 John Helmert III archtester

2023-04-30 22:39:11 UTC

Thanks!