PT-2014-4859 · Wikimedia+1 · Mediawiki+1

Published 2014-04-03 · Updated 2014-07-29 · CVE-2014-2665

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.0

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions MediaWiki versions prior to 1.19.14 MediaWiki versions 1.20.x MediaWiki versions 1.21.x prior to 1.21.8 MediaWiki versions 1.22.x prior to 1.22.5

Description The issue makes it easier for remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive information by arranging for a victim to login to the attacker's account, as demonstrated by tracking the victim's activity, related to a "login CSRF" issue. This occurs because the includes/specials/SpecialChangePassword.php file in MediaWiki does not properly handle a correctly authenticated but unintended login attempt.

Recommendations For MediaWiki versions prior to 1.19.14, update to version 1.19.14 or later. For MediaWiki versions 1.20.x, update to a version outside of the 1.20.x range, such as 1.19.14 or later, or 1.21.8 or later. For MediaWiki versions 1.21.x prior to 1.21.8, update to version 1.21.8 or later. For MediaWiki versions 1.22.x prior to 1.22.5, update to version 1.22.5 or later.

Fix

Improper Authentication

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-287

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2014-1960

CVE-2014-2665

DSA-2891-1

MGASA-2014-0157

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Mediawiki

References · 21

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2014-2665 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2014-March/000145.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/121517/1/includes/specials/SpecialChangePassword.php · Patch
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0157.html · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-2665 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2014-0157 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2014-2665 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-2665 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-2665 · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-2665 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2014-2665 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-2853 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-3966 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-2665 · Vendor Advisory
• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2014-1960 · Vendor Advisory