CVE-2012-4379
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 6.5 · Improper access control
6.5CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
MediaWiki before 1.18.5, and 1.19.x before 1.19.2 does not send a restrictive X-Frame-Options HTTP header, which allows remote attackers to conduct clickjacking attacks via an embedded API response in an IFRAME element.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionRequired
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactHigh
Availability impactNone
Exploit probability (EPSS)1%
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Official patch: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/31/10 ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/31/10Patch
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853426Patch
- https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-August/000119.htmlPatch
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T41180Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/31/6Advisory
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=686330Advisory