Debian DSA-2753-1 : mediawiki - information leak

medium Nessus Plugin ID 69884

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Synopsis

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

Description

It was discovered that in MediaWiki, a wiki engine, several API modules allowed anti-CSRF tokens to be accessed via JSONP. These tokens protect against cross site request forgeries and are confidential.

Solution

Upgrade the mediawiki packages.

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 1.15.5-2squeeze6.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 1.19.5-1+deb7u1.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 69884

File Name: debian_DSA-2753.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 9/14/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:mediawiki, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/13/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-4302

BID: 62215

DSA: 2753

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