CVE-2015-8624
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Mar 23, 2017
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Dec 23, 2015
Description
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.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- [MediaWiki-announce] 20151221 [MediaWiki-announce] Security Release: 1.26.1, 1.25.4, 1.24.5 and 1.23.12mailing-list
- [oss-security] 20151223 Re: CVE requests for MediaWiki 1.26.1, 1.25.4, 1.24.5 and 1.23.12mailing-list
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119309
- [oss-security] 20151221 CVE requests for MediaWiki 1.26.1, 1.25.4, 1.24.5 and 1.23.12mailing-list
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