CVE-2012-1578
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v2
6.8
VIR risk
6.8
Description
Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in MediaWiki 1.17.x before 1.17.3 and 1.18.x before 1.18.2 allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of users with the block permission for requests that (1) block a user via a request to the Block module or (2) unblock a user via a request to the Unblock module.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-1578
Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — http://secunia.com/advisories/48504
Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-March/000110.html
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 0 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 0 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 0 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 0 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 0 |
References
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-March/000109.html
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-March/000110.html
- http://osvdb.org/80361
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48504
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/22/9
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/24/1
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52689
- https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34212
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78911
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-1578
CWEs
CWE-352
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.