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🛡️ CVE-2024-45591 — xwiki

🟡 CVSS 5.3 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-359 NVD
5.3
CVSS Score
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Description

XWiki Platform document history including authors of any page exposed to unauthorized actors

Impact

The REST API exposes the history of any page in XWiki of which the attacker knows the name. The exposed information includes for each modification of the page the time of the modification, the version number, the author of the modification (both username and displayed name) and the version comment. This information is exposed regardless of the rights setup, and even when the wiki is configured to be fully private.

On a private wiki, this can be tested by accessing /xwiki/rest/wikis/xwiki/spaces/Main/pages/WebHome/history, if this shows the history of the main page then the installation is vulnerable.

Patches

This has been patched in XWiki 15.10.9 and XWiki 16.3.0RC1.

Workarounds

There aren't any known workarounds apart from upgrading to a fixed version.

References

  • https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-22052
  • https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/9cbca9808300797c67779bb9a665d85cf9e3d4b8

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity none, availability none.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.
  • Integrity impact: None.
  • Availability impact: None.

Weakness class

CVE-2024-45591 is classified as CWE-359: Exposure of Private Personal Information to an Unauthorized Actor. The product does not properly prevent a person's private, personal information from being accessed by actors who either (1) are not explicitly authorized to access the information or (2) do not have the implicit consent of the person about whom the…

Affected software

CVE-2024-45591 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-rest-server (from 16.0.0-rc-1 up to 16.3.0-rc-1)
  • xwiki (from 16.0.0 up to 16.3.0)

Timeline and source

Published on 10 September 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

github.com (Web)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
jira.xwiki.org (Web)

Other advisories for this package

org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-rest-server has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-359: Exposure of Private Personal Information to an Unauthorized Actor) in other software:

Details

Severity Medium
CVSS Score 5.3
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-359
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-09-10
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2024-09-10

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-rest-server 16.0.0-rc-1 16.3.0-rc-1
xwiki 16.0.0 16.3.0

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