PT-2014-2308 · Mediawiki · Mediawiki Centralauth Extension

Csteipp · Published 2014-06-02 · Updated 2014-06-03 · CVE-2012-5395

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 CentralAuth extension versions prior to 1.18.6 MediaWiki CentralAuth extension versions 1.19.x prior to 1.19.3 MediaWiki CentralAuth extension versions 1.20.x prior to 1.20.1

Description The issue allows remote attackers to hijack web sessions. This is achieved via the centralauth Session cookie.

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-2012-5395

Affected Products

Mediawiki Centralauth Extension

References · 4

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-5395 · Security Note
• http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-November/000122.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40962 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-5395 · Note