CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-4381
8.1 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-02-08
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 9.3 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-798
Description
MediaWiki before 1.18.5, and 1.19.x before 1.19.2 saves passwords in the local database, (1) which could make it easier for context-dependent attackers to obtain cleartext passwords via a brute-force attack or, (2) when an authentication plugin returns a false in the strict function, could allow remote attackers to use old passwords for non-existing accounts in an external authentication system via unspecified vectors.
Affected configurations
• mediawiki mediawiki (< 1.18.5)
• mediawiki mediawiki (>= 1.19.0 < 1.19.2)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-798 Use of Hard-coded Credentials weakness
References
- http://osvdb.org/show/osvdb/85106 Broken Link
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/31/10 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/31/6 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=686330 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853442 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-August/000119.html Patch, Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T41184 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://osvdb.org/show/osvdb/85106 Broken Link
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/31/10 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/31/6 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=686330 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853442 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-August/000119.html Patch, Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T41184 Patch, Vendor Advisory