CVE-2013-4572

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Feb 6, 2020
Updated: Aug 6, 2024
Reserved: Jun 12, 2013

Description

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.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
MediaWikiWikimedia Foundation	before 1.19.9Affected 1.20.x before 1.20.8Affected 1.21.x before 1.21.3Affected

References

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

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