Security advisory

{
  "id": "83288bc9f04c59a8b5305fdd91061cc43f1f88f5c9401dbd38a83d4e67c97e7c",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-40598",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2024-40598",
    "summary": "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.)",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2024-40598",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2024-40598",
      "aliases": [
        "BIT-mediawiki-2024-40598",
        "CVE-2024-40598"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "aed0478e99077ed07a7d2987e9bd2b98cecf8d64"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "1.42.1"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "1.42.1",
            "1.42.0",
            "1.42.0-rc.0",
            "test-hashar-for-ci",
            "1.6.0",
            "1.5.0beta4",
            "1.5.0beta3",
            "1.5.0beta2",
            "1.5.0beta1",
            "1.5.0alpha2",
            "1.5.0alpha1",
            "1.3.0beta1",
            "1.1.0"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-40598.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:27.981857491Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T326867",
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/40xxx/CVE-2024-40598.json",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-40598"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "cna_assigner": "mitre",
        "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/40xxx/CVE-2024-40598.json"
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2024-40598",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 494840,
  "published_at": "2024-07-06T00:00:00+00:00"
}