CVE-2015-2940 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the CheckUser extension for MediaWiki allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of certain users for requests that retrieve sensitive user information via unspecified vectors.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Mediawiki	Checkuser

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:checkuser:-:*:*:*:*:mediawiki:*:*

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References

Link	Providers
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:200
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/01/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/07/3
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73477
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2015-March/000175.html
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T85858
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-05

History

No history.

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2015-04-13T14:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T05:32:20.467Z

Reserved: 2015-04-07T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2015-2940

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2015-04-13T14:59:13.520

Modified: 2024-11-21T02:28:21.677

Link: CVE-2015-2940

Redhat

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