CVE-2013-4572
First published: Thu Feb 06 2020(Updated: )
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.
Credit: secalert@redhat.com
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| MediaWiki MediaWiki | <1.19.9 | |
| MediaWiki MediaWiki | >=1.20<1.20.8 | |
| MediaWiki MediaWiki | >=1.21<1.21.3 | |
| Fedoraproject Fedora | =18 | |
| Fedoraproject Fedora | =19 |
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Reference Links
- agent/references
- agent/type
- agent/last-modified-date
- agent/first-publish-date
- collector/nvd-index
- agent/software-canonical-lookup-request
- agent/weakness
- agent/severity
- agent/author
- agent/remedy
- agent/softwarecombine
- agent/tags
- agent/description
- agent/event
- collector/mitre-cve
- source/MITRE
- vendor/mediawiki
- canonical/mediawiki mediawiki
- version/mediawiki mediawiki/1.20
- version/mediawiki mediawiki/1.21
- vendor/fedoraproject
- canonical/fedoraproject fedora
- version/fedoraproject fedora/18
- version/fedoraproject fedora/19