CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-5391
6.8 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2014-06-02
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Description
Session fixation vulnerability in Special:UserLogin in MediaWiki before 1.18.6, 1.19.x before 1.19.3, and 1.20.x before 1.20.1 allows remote attackers to hijack web sessions via the session_id.
Affected configurations
• mediawiki mediawiki (<= 1.18.5)
• mediawiki mediawiki 1.18
• mediawiki mediawiki 1.18.0
• mediawiki mediawiki 1.18.1
• mediawiki mediawiki 1.18.2
• mediawiki mediawiki 1.18.3
• mediawiki mediawiki 1.18.4
• mediawiki mediawiki 1.19
• mediawiki mediawiki 1.19.1
• mediawiki mediawiki 1.19.2
• mediawiki mediawiki 1.20
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-February/098975.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-March/100843.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-March/100845.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-November/000122.html Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40995 bugzilla.wikimedia.org
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/83008 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-February/098975.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-March/100843.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-March/100845.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-November/000122.html Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40995 bugzilla.wikimedia.org
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/83008 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com