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CVE-2008-5687: mediawiki

CVSS: 5.0v2.0MediumModified
AliasesDEBIAN-CVE-2008-5687
Published 19-12-2008Last modified 07-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2008-5687 is a medium (CVSS 5.0) vulnerability in mediawiki. EPSS estimates a 1.96% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 80% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
20/100
0100
Low · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
5.0/10
010
Medium · v2.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
1.96%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 1
DTSA-186-1

Timeline

  1. 19-12-2008
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 07-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

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/.

CVSS metrics

1 score · 1 source · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

1.96%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

80%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 1.96% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
1.96%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Debian1 product
  • mediawiki< 1:1.13.3-1
Mediawiki1 product
  • mediawiki1.11 | 1.11:rc1 | 1.11.1 | 1.11.2 | 1.12.0 | 1.12.0:rc1 | 1.12.1 | 1.12.2 | 1.12.3 | 1.13.0 | 1.13.0:rc1 | 1.13.0:rc2 | 1.13.1 | 1.13.2

2 vendors · 2 products

References

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