PT-2012-3353 · Wikimedia · Mediawiki

Brooke · Published 2012-09-09 · Updated 2012-09-10 · CVE-2012-1579

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions MediaWiki versions 1.17.x through 1.17.2 MediaWiki versions 1.18.x through 1.18.1

Description The issue concerns the inclusion of private data, such as CSRF tokens, in a JavaScript file by the resource loader. This allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information.

Recommendations For MediaWiki versions 1.17.x through 1.17.2, update to version 1.17.3 or later. For MediaWiki versions 1.18.x through 1.18.1, update to version 1.18.2 or later.

Exploit

Fix

Information Disclosure

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-200

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-1579

Affected Products

Mediawiki

References · 9

• 🔥 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34907 · Exploit
• http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-March/000110.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-1579 · Security Note
• http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-March/000109.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/48504 · Vendor Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/24/1 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/52689 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/22/9 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-1579 · Note