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Debian DSA-2041-1 : mediawiki - Cross-Site Request Forgery

medium Nessus Plugin ID 46226

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

It was discovered that mediawiki, a website engine for collaborative work, is vulnerable to a Cross-Site Request Forgery login attack, which could be used to conduct phishing or similar attacks to users via affected mediawiki installations.

Note that the fix used breaks the login API and may require clients using it to be updated.

Solution

Upgrade the mediawiki packages.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1:1.12.0-2lenny5.

See Also

https://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2041

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 46226

File Name: debian_DSA-2041.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/5/2010

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:mediawiki

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 5/3/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-1150

DSA: 2041