CVE-2012-5394
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 6.8 · Cross-site request forgery (CSRF)
6.8CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the CentralAuth extension for MediaWiki before 1.19.9, 1.20.x before 1.20.8, and 1.21.x before 1.21.3 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of users for requests that login via vectors involving image loading.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexity—
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impact—
Integrity impact—
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)1%
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.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-December/122998.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-December/123011.html
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2013-November/000135.html
- https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40747