Candidate: CVE-2017-8814
PublicDate: 2017-11-15 08:29:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-8814
 https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2017-November/000216.html
 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124404
Description:
 The language converter in MediaWiki before 1.27.4, 1.28.x before 1.28.3,
 and 1.29.x before 1.29.2 allows attackers to replace text inside tags via a
 rule definition followed by "a lot of junk."
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
Bugs:
Priority: low
Discovered-by:
Assigned-to:
CVSS:
 nvd: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N [7.5 HIGH]


Patches_mediawiki:
upstream_mediawiki: released (1:1.27.4-1)
precise/esm_mediawiki: DNE
trusty_mediawiki: ignored (reached end-of-life)
trusty/esm_mediawiki: DNE (trusty was needed)
xenial_mediawiki: DNE
zesty_mediawiki: ignored (reached end-of-life)
artful_mediawiki: ignored (reached end-of-life)
bionic_mediawiki: not-affected (1.27.4-1)
cosmic_mediawiki: not-affected (1.27.4-1)
disco_mediawiki: not-affected (1.27.4-1)
devel_mediawiki: not-affected (1.27.4-1)