PT-2014-2307 · Wikimedia · Mediawiki

Csteipp · Published 2014-06-02 · Updated 2017-08-29 · CVE-2012-5391

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.8

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions MediaWiki versions prior to 1.18.6 MediaWiki versions 1.19.x prior to 1.19.3 MediaWiki versions 1.20.x prior to 1.20.1

Description The issue allows remote attackers to hijack web sessions via the session id. This is related to a session fixation vulnerability in Special:UserLogin.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.18.6, update to version 1.18.6 or later. For versions 1.19.x prior to 1.19.3, update to version 1.19.3 or later. For versions 1.20.x prior to 1.20.1, update to version 1.20.1 or later.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-5391

Affected Products

Mediawiki

References · 11

• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-5391 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2012-5391 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-February/098975.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2012-5391 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-November/000122.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-March/100843.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-5391 · Security Note
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-March/100845.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-5391 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/83008 · Note
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40995 · Note