CVE-2012-5391
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 6.8
6.8CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
Session fixation vulnerability in Special:UserLogin in MediaWiki before 1.18.6, 1.19.x before 1.19.3, and 1.20.x before 1.20.1 allows remote attackers to hijack web sessions via the session_id.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexity—
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impact—
Integrity impact—
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)2%
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-November/000122.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-February/098975.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-March/100843.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-March/100845.html
- https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40995
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/83008