PT-2015-7318 · Wikimedia+1 · Mediawiki+1

Grunny · Published 2015-09-01 · Updated 2016-12-07 · CVE-2015-6728

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.5

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions MediaWiki versions prior to 1.23.10 MediaWiki versions 1.24.x prior to 1.24.3 MediaWiki versions 1.25.x prior to 1.25.2

Description The issue concerns the ApiBase::getWatchlistUser function, which does not perform token comparison in constant time. This allows remote attackers to guess the watchlist token via a timing attack, effectively bypassing CSRF protection.

Recommendations For MediaWiki versions prior to 1.23.10, update to version 1.23.10 or later. For MediaWiki versions 1.24.x prior to 1.24.3, update to version 1.24.3 or later. For MediaWiki versions 1.25.x prior to 1.25.2, update to version 1.25.2 or later.

Fix

CSRF

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-352

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2015-1935

CVE-2015-6728

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Mediawiki

References · 38

• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-6728 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-2932 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-2931 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2015-6728 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8005 · Security Note
• https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2015-August/000179.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-6733 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-2938 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8001 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-2942 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-6728 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-6728 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-August/165193.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8009 · Security Note
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-05 · Vendor Advisory