PT-2014-4579 · Wikimedia+1 · Mediawiki+1

Published 2014-03-02 · Updated 2014-03-14 · CVE-2014-2243

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.8

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions MediaWiki versions prior to 1.19.12 MediaWiki versions 1.20.x MediaWiki versions 1.21.x prior to 1.21.6 MediaWiki versions 1.22.x prior to 1.22.3

Description The issue makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain access via a brute-force attack that relies on timing differences in responses to incorrect token guesses, due to the termination of validation of a user token upon encountering the first incorrect character in the includes/User.php file.

Recommendations For MediaWiki versions prior to 1.19.12, update to version 1.19.12 or later. For MediaWiki versions 1.20.x, update to a version outside of the 1.20.x range, such as 1.19.12 or 1.21.6 or later. For MediaWiki versions 1.21.x prior to 1.21.6, update to version 1.21.6 or later. For MediaWiki versions 1.22.x prior to 1.22.3, update to version 1.22.3 or later.

Fix

Race Condition

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-362

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2014-1286

CVE-2014-2243

MGASA-2014-0124

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Mediawiki

References · 23

• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0124.html · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-2243 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-2242 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2014-2243 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-2244 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-2243 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2014-2243 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2014-February/000141.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61346 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-2243 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-2243 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2014-0124 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-2243 · Vendor Advisory
• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2014-1286 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2014-2243 · Vendor Advisory