Cross-site Request Forgery (CSRF) Affecting mediawiki package, versions <1:1.25.5-1


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Debian security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.7% (81st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-MEDIAWIKI-370469
  • published23 Mar 2017
  • disclosed23 Mar 2017

Introduced: 23 Mar 2017

CVE-2015-8624  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-352  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable mediawiki to version 1:1.25.5-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream mediawiki package and not the mediawiki package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:unstable relevant fixed versions and status.

The User::matchEditToken function in includes/User.php in MediaWiki before 1.23.12, 1.24.x before 1.24.5, 1.25.x before 1.25.4, and 1.26.x before 1.26.1 does not perform token comparison in constant time before determining if a debugging message should be logged, which allows remote attackers to guess the edit token and bypass CSRF protection via a timing attack, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-8623.