CVE-2012-4381
HIGH severity · CVSS 8.1 · Hard-coded credentials
8.1CVSS HIGH
Summary
MediaWiki before 1.18.5, and 1.19.x before 1.19.2 saves passwords in the local database, (1) which could make it easier for context-dependent attackers to obtain cleartext passwords via a brute-force attack or, (2) when an authentication plugin returns a false in the strict function, could allow remote attackers to use old passwords for non-existing accounts in an external authentication system via unspecified vectors.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityHigh
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactHigh
Integrity impactHigh
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)4%
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix promptly. 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
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/31/6Patch
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853442Patch
- https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-August/000119.htmlPatch
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T41184Patch
- http://osvdb.org/show/osvdb/85106
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=686330Advisory