Security and maintenance release: 1.35.5 / 1.36.3 / 1.37.1 - Wikitech-l

15 Dec 2021


      I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki 1.35.5, 1.36.3 and 1.37.1!
This release fixes multiple high severity authorization bypasses in
MediaWiki core that both allow for reading private wikis and editing
arbitrary pages on any wiki.
If you do not have time to upgrade right away, please set the following at
the bottom of your LocalSettings.php to disable the vulnerable code
immediately:
$wgActions['mcrundo'] = false;
  $wgActions['mcrrestore'] = false;
  $wgWhitelistRead = [];
  $wgWhitelistReadRegexp = [];
This will also work for vulnerable end-of-life MediaWiki versions that do
not have a patch available.
A more detailed FAQ about these issues is available at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/2021-12_security_release/FAQ
These releases also serve as a maintenance release for these branches.
Note that the patches are much larger than recent previous security and
maintenance releases. This is due to the re-introduction of translation
backports. These include the export of new languages that have met the
translation threshold in the development branch of MediaWiki. These
translation updates are for both MediaWiki core and the bundled skins and
extensions. In the case of MediaWiki 1.35, this is translation updates
going back 18 months, hence the size of the patch.
While tarballs have already been uploaded as of this e-mail, git tags will
follow later on today.
An "MediaWiki Extensions Security Release Supplement" e-mail will follow
this one, covering security updates for non-bundled extensions.
Finally, a big thanks to all those involved in reporting, investigating and
fixing these issues.
== Security fixes ==
* (T292763. CVE-2021-44854) REST API incorrectly publicly caches
autocomplete search results from private wikis.
* (T271037, CVE-2021-44856) Title blocked in AbuseFilter can be created via
Special:ChangeContentModel.
* (T297322, CVE-2021-44857) Unauthorized users can use action=mcrundo to
replace the content of arbitrary pages.
* (T297322, CVE-2021-44858) Unauthorized users can view contents of private
wikis using various actions.
* (T297574, CVE-2021-45038) Unauthorized users can access private wiki
contents using rollback action
=== Extension security fixes ===
* (T293589, CVE-2021-44855) Blind Stored XSS in VisualEditor media dialog.
* (T294686) Special:Nuke doesn't actually delete pages.
== Links to all mentioned tasks ==
* https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T294686
* https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T297322
* https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T293589
* https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T292763
* https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T271037
== Release notes ==
Full release notes for 1.35.5:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/MW/browse/REL1_35/RELEASE-NOTES-...
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.35
Full release notes for 1.36.3:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/MW/browse/REL1_36/RELEASE-NOTES-...
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.36
Full release notes for 1.37.1:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/MW/browse/REL1_37/RELEASE-NOTES-...
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.37
For information about how to upgrade, see
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Upgrading
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Download:
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.36/mediawiki-1.36.3.tar.gz
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.36/mediawiki-1.36.3.zip
Download without bundled extensions:
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.36/mediawiki-core-1.36.3.tar.gz
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.36/mediawiki-core-1.36.3.zip
Patch to previous version (1.36.2):
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.36/mediawiki-1.36.3.patch.gz
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.36/mediawiki-1.36.3.patch.zip
GPG signatures:
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.36/mediawiki-core-1.36.3.tar.gz.s...
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.36/mediawiki-core-1.36.3.zip.sig
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.36/mediawiki-1.36.3.tar.gz.sig
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.36/mediawiki-1.36.3.zip.sig
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.36/mediawiki-1.36.3.patch.gz.sig
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.36/mediawiki-1.36.3.patch.zip.sig
Public keys:
https://www.mediawiki.org/keys/keys.html
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Download:
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.37/mediawiki-1.37.1.tar.gz
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.37/mediawiki-1.37.1.zip
Download without bundled extensions:
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.37/mediawiki-core-1.37.1.tar.gz
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.37/mediawiki-core-1.37.1.zip
Patch to previous version (1.37.0):
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.37/mediawiki-1.37.1.patch.gz
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.37/mediawiki-1.37.1.patch.zip
GPG signatures:
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.37/mediawiki-core-1.37.1.tar.gz.s...
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.37/mediawiki-core-1.37.1.zip.sig
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.37/mediawiki-1.37.1.tar.gz.sig
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.37/mediawiki-1.37.1.zip.sig
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.37/mediawiki-1.37.1.patch.gz.sig
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.37/mediawiki-1.37.1.patch.zip.sig
Public keys:
https://www.mediawiki.org/keys/keys.html
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Download:
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.35/mediawiki-1.35.5.tar.gz
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.35/mediawiki-1.35.5.zip
Download without bundled extensions:
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.35/mediawiki-core-1.35.5.tar.gz
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.35/mediawiki-core-1.35.5.zip
Patch to previous version (1.35.4):
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.35/mediawiki-1.35.5.patch.gz
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.35/mediawiki-1.35.5.patch.zip
GPG signatures:
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.35/mediawiki-core-1.35.5.tar.gz.s...
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.35/mediawiki-core-1.35.5.zip.sig
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.35/mediawiki-1.35.5.tar.gz.sig
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.35/mediawiki-1.35.5.zip.sig
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.35/mediawiki-1.35.5.patch.gz.sig
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.35/mediawiki-1.35.5.patch.zip.sig
Public keys:
https://www.mediawiki.org/keys/keys.html