CVEvulnerability
CVE-2013-4572
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-02-06
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-384
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.
Affected configurations
• 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
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-384 Session Fixation weakness
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-December/122998.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-December/123011.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2013-November/000135.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53032 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-December/122998.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-December/123011.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2013-November/000135.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53032 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory