PT-2015-5990 · Mediawiki · Mediawiki Checkuser Extension

Bawolff · Published 2015-04-09 · Updated 2016-12-07 · CVE-2015-2940

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 CheckUser extension (affected versions not specified)

Description A cross-site request forgery (CSRF) issue allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of certain users for requests that retrieve sensitive user information.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

CSRF

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-352

Related Identifiers

CVE-2015-2940

MGASA-2015-0142

Affected Products

Mediawiki Checkuser Extension

References · 17

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-2940 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-2940 · Security Note
• https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2015-March/000175.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2015-2940 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-2940 · Vendor Advisory
• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:200 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2015-0142 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-2940 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2015-2940 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0142.html · Security Note
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-05 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-2940 · Vendor Advisory
• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T85858 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/01/1 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/07/3 · Note