VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2014-2665

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Published 2014-04-20 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
4.0

Description

includes/specials/SpecialChangePassword.php in MediaWiki before 1.19.14, 1.20.x and 1.21.x before 1.21.8, and 1.22.x before 1.22.5 does not properly handle a correctly authenticated but unintended login attempt, which makes it easier for remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive information by arranging for a victim to login to the attacker's account, as demonstrated by tracking the victim's activity, related to a "login CSRF" issue.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed1:1.19.14+dfsg-1
debian debianbullseyefixed1:1.19.14+dfsg-1
debian debianforkyfixed1:1.19.14+dfsg-1
debian debiansidfixed1:1.19.14+dfsg-1
debian debiantrixiefixed1:1.19.14+dfsg-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
mediawikimediawiki{"endIncluding":"1.19.13"}
mediawikimediawiki1.19
mediawikimediawiki1.19.0
mediawikimediawiki1.19.1
mediawikimediawiki1.19.2
mediawikimediawiki1.19.3
mediawikimediawiki1.19.4
mediawikimediawiki1.19.5
mediawikimediawiki1.19.6
mediawikimediawiki1.19.7
mediawikimediawiki1.19.8
mediawikimediawiki1.19.9
mediawikimediawiki1.19.10
mediawikimediawiki1.19.11
mediawikimediawiki1.19.12
mediawikimediawiki1.20
mediawikimediawiki1.20.1
mediawikimediawiki1.20.2
mediawikimediawiki1.20.3
mediawikimediawiki1.20.4
mediawikimediawiki1.20.5
mediawikimediawiki1.20.6
mediawikimediawiki1.20.7
mediawikimediawiki1.20.8
mediawikimediawiki1.21
mediawikimediawiki1.21.1
mediawikimediawiki1.21.2
mediawikimediawiki1.21.3
mediawikimediawiki1.21.4
mediawikimediawiki1.21.5
mediawikimediawiki1.21.6
mediawikimediawiki1.21.7
mediawikimediawiki1.22.0
mediawikimediawiki1.22.1
mediawikimediawiki1.22.2
mediawikimediawiki1.22.3
mediawikimediawiki1.22.4

References

CWEs

CWE-287

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.