VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2014-9487

critical
Published 2017-10-17 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
9.8

Description

The getid3 library in MediaWiki before 1.24.1, 1.23.8, 1.22.15 and 1.19.23 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files, cause a denial of service, or possibly have other impact via an XML External Entity (XXE) attack. NOTE: Related to CVE-2014-2053.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
mediawikimediawiki1.19
mediawikimediawiki1.19.0
mediawikimediawiki1.19.1
mediawikimediawiki1.19.2
mediawikimediawiki1.19.3
mediawikimediawiki1.19.4
mediawikimediawiki1.19.5
mediawikimediawiki1.19.6
mediawikimediawiki1.19.7
mediawikimediawiki1.19.8
mediawikimediawiki1.19.9
mediawikimediawiki1.19.10
mediawikimediawiki1.19.11
mediawikimediawiki1.19.12
mediawikimediawiki1.19.13
mediawikimediawiki1.19.14
mediawikimediawiki1.19.15
mediawikimediawiki1.19.16
mediawikimediawiki1.19.17
mediawikimediawiki1.19.18
mediawikimediawiki1.19.19
mediawikimediawiki1.19.20
mediawikimediawiki1.19.21
mediawikimediawiki1.19.22
mediawikimediawiki1.22.0
mediawikimediawiki1.22.1
mediawikimediawiki1.22.2
mediawikimediawiki1.22.3
mediawikimediawiki1.22.4
mediawikimediawiki1.22.5
mediawikimediawiki1.22.6
mediawikimediawiki1.22.7
mediawikimediawiki1.22.8
mediawikimediawiki1.22.9
mediawikimediawiki1.22.10
mediawikimediawiki1.22.11
mediawikimediawiki1.22.12
mediawikimediawiki1.22.13
mediawikimediawiki1.22.14
mediawikimediawiki1.23.0
mediawikimediawiki1.23.1
mediawikimediawiki1.23.2
mediawikimediawiki1.23.3
mediawikimediawiki1.23.4
mediawikimediawiki1.23.5
mediawikimediawiki1.23.6
mediawikimediawiki1.23.7
mediawikimediawiki1.24.0

References

CWEs

CWE-611

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.