CVE-2012-5395

Session fixation vulnerability in the CentralAuth extension for 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 centralauth_Session cookie.

CVSS v2.0 6.8 MEDIUM

6.8^/10

CVSS v2.0 : MEDIUM

Vector : AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Exploitability : 8.6 / Impact : 6.4

Access Vector NETWORK

Access Complexity MEDIUM

Authentication NONE

Confidentiality Impact PARTIAL

Integrity Impact PARTIAL

Availability Impact PARTIAL

References

Link	Resource
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-November/000122.html	Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40962
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-November/000122.html	Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40962

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.20:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 2 (hide)

OR	cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.19:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.19:beta_1::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.19:beta_2::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.19.1:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.19.2:::::::*

Configuration 3 (hide)

OR	cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.18:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.18:beta_1::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.18.0:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.18.0:rc1::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.18.1:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.18.2:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.18.3:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.18.4:::::::*

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2014-06-02 15:55

Updated : 2025-04-12 10:46

NVD link : CVE-2012-5395

Mitre link : CVE-2012-5395

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2012-5395

JSON object : View

Products Affected

mediawiki

mediawiki

CWE

NVD-CWE-Other

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