CVE-2021-44854
Published: 26 December 2022
Summary
CVE-2021-44854 is a medium-severity Use of Cache Containing Sensitive Information (CWE-524) vulnerability in Mediawiki Mediawiki. Its CVSS base score is 5.3 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked at the 44.3th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2021-31657
Vulnerability details
An issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.35.5, 1.36.x before 1.36.3, and 1.37.x before 1.37.1. The REST API publicly caches results from private wikis.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Refreshing cached data or generating it ephemerally and deleting afterward directly mitigates storage of sensitive information in caches.