Vulnerability Monitor

The vendors, products, and vulnerabilities you care about

CVE-2013-4572

The CentralNotice extension for MediaWiki before 1.19.9, 1.20.x before 1.20.8, and 1.21.x before 1.21.3 sets the Cache-Control header to cache session cookies when a user is autocreated, which allows remote attackers to authenticate as the created user.

Published

2020-02-06T15:15:10.387

Last Modified

2024-11-21T01:55:51.343

Status

Modified

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.1: 7.5 (HIGH)

CVSSv2 Vector

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

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: LOW
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: NONE
Integrity Impact: PARTIAL
Availability Impact: NONE

Exploitability Score

10.0

Impact Score

2.9

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-384

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	mediawiki	mediawiki	< 1.19.9	Yes
Application	mediawiki	mediawiki	< 1.20.8	Yes
Application	mediawiki	mediawiki	< 1.21.3	Yes
Operating System	fedoraproject	fedora	18	Yes
Operating System	fedoraproject	fedora	19	Yes

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-December/122998.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-December/123011.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2013-November/000135.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53032 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-December/122998.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-December/123011.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2013-November/000135.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53032 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)