CVE-2013-4572

high

Description

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.

References

Advisories

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53032

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: 2020-02-06

Updated: 2020-02-10

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

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

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00849