CVE-2012-5394

high

Description

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.

References

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40747

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2013-November/000135.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-December/123011.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-December/122998.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2013-12-13

Updated: 2013-12-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High