CVE-2012-5395

critical

Description

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.

References

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40962

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-November/000122.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2014-06-02

Updated: 2024-11-21

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: 9.1

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

Severity: Critical

Detections

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