Session Fixation in MediaWiki - CVE-2013-4572
Published: February 6, 2020 / Updated: July 17, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU30374
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2013-4572
CWE-ID: CWE-384
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to manipulate data.
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.
Affected software
MediaWiki
Fedora
mediawiki119
Fedora
mediawiki119
How to mitigate CVE-2013-4572
Install update from vendor's website.
MediaWiki - update to 1.21.3
mediawiki119 - addressed in versions 1.19.9-1.el6, 1.19.11-2.el5
mediawiki119 - addressed in versions 1.19.9-1.el6, 1.19.11-2.el5
External References
- 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=53032