CVE-2013-4572

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.

Score

CVSS 3.1 7.5 High

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2020-02-06

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-384

Affected products

• Fedora (Fedoraproject)
• Mediawiki (Mediawiki)
• Mediawiki (Wikimedia Foundation)

References

• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-December/122998.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-December/123011.html
• http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2013-November/000135.html
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53032