PT-2015-4233 · Wikimedia+1 · Mediawiki+1

Anomie · Published 2015-01-16 · Updated 2015-09-17 · CVE-2014-9476

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions MediaWiki versions 1.2x through 1.22.14 MediaWiki versions 1.23.x through 1.23.7 MediaWiki versions 1.24.x through 1.24.0

Description The issue allows remote attackers to bypass CORS restrictions in $wgCrossSiteAJAXdomains via a domain that has a partial match to an allowed origin. This can be demonstrated by using a domain such as "http://en.wikipedia.org.evilsite.example/."

Recommendations For MediaWiki versions 1.2x through 1.22.14, update to version 1.22.15 or later. For MediaWiki versions 1.23.x through 1.23.7, update to version 1.23.8 or later. For MediaWiki versions 1.24.x through 1.24.0, update to version 1.24.1 or later.

Exploit

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-264

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2015-1194

CVE-2014-9476

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Mediawiki

References · 21

• 🔥 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T77028 · Exploit
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-9477 · Security Note
• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2015-1194 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-9476 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-9476 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-9487 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-9480 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-9479 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-9475 · Security Note
• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:006 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-9481 · Security Note
• https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2014-December/000173.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-9478 · Security Note
• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T77624 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-9476 · Note