CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2024-40598

Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File

Published: Jul 07, 2024 | Modified: Mar 25, 2025
CVSS 3.x
4.3
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

An issue was discovered in the CheckUser extension for MediaWiki through 1.42.1. The API can expose suppressed information for log events. (The log_deleted attribute is not applied to entries.)

Weakness

The product writes sensitive information to a log file.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Mediawiki Mediawiki * 1.42.1 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References