Medium
Security advisory
An issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.35.9, 1.36.x through 1.38.x before 1.38.5, and 1.39.x before 1.39.1. When installing with a pre-existing data directory that has weak permissions, the SQLite files are created with file mode 0644, i.e., world readable to local users. These files include credentials data.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2022-47927
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 3 Nov 2026, 14:23 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.35.9, 1.36.x through 1.38.x before 1.38.5, and 1.39.x before 1.39.1. When installing with a pre-existing data directory that has weak permissions, the SQLite files are created with file mode 0644, i.e., world readable to local users. These files include credentials data.
osv:CVE-2022-47927
Complete source record
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"summary": "An issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.35.9, 1.36.x through 1.38.x before 1.38.5, and 1.39.x before 1.39.1. When installing with a pre-existing data directory that has weak permissions, the SQLite files are created with file mode 0644, i.e., world readable to local users. These files include credentials data.",
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"modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:29.345732354Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/mediawiki-announce%40lists.wikimedia.org/thread/UEMW64LVEH3BEXCJV43CVS6XPYURKWU3/",
"https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T322637",
"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/47xxx/CVE-2022-47927.json",
"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AP65YEN762IBNQPOYGUVLTQIDLM5XD2A/",
"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-47927",
"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-24",
"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/07/msg00011.html"
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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"published_at": "2023-01-12T00:00:00+00:00"
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