ubuntu-cve-2014-1610
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2014-01-30 23:55
Modified
2025-07-16 04:50
Summary
Details

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.

Severity
N/A (UNKNOWN)
medium
References
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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "availability": "No subscription required",
        "binaries": [
          {
            "binary_name": "mediawiki",
            "binary_version": "1:1.19.11+dfsg-1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "mediawiki-classes",
            "binary_version": "1:1.19.11+dfsg-1"
          }
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:14.04:LTS",
        "name": "mediawiki",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/mediawiki@1:1.19.11+dfsg-1?arch=source\u0026distro=trusty"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "1:1.19.11+dfsg-1"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "1:1.19.8+dfsg-1",
        "1:1.19.8+dfsg-2",
        "1:1.19.8+dfsg-2.1",
        "1:1.19.8+dfsg-2.2",
        "1:1.19.9+dfsg-2",
        "1:1.19.10+dfsg-1"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "details": "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.",
  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2014-1610",
  "modified": "2025-07-16T04:50:28Z",
  "published": "2014-01-30T23:55:00Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1610"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/110215/"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/110069/2/includes/media/Bitmap.php"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/110069/"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60339"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/attachment.cgi?id=14384\u0026action=diff"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/attachment.cgi?id=14361\u0026action=diff"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "http://secunia.com/advisories/56695"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "http://osvdb.org/102630"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2014-January/000140.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-1610"
    }
  ],
  "related": [],
  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "medium",
      "type": "Ubuntu"
    }
  ],
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2014-1610"
  ],
  "withdrawn": "2025-07-18T16:42:59Z"
}



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