CVE-2015-2940

CVSS V2 Medium 6.8 CVSS V3 None

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the CheckUser extension for MediaWiki allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of certain users for requests that retrieve sensitive user information via unspecified vectors.

Overview

CVE ID
CVE-2015-2940

Assigner
cve@mitre.org

Vulnerability Status
Modified

Published Version
2015-04-13T14:59:13

Last Modified Date
2016-12-07T18:11:04

Weakness Enumerations

CWE	URL
CWE-352	http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/352.html

CPE Configuration (Product)

CPE	Vulnerable	Operator	Version Start	Version End
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:checkuser:-:::::mediawiki::	1	OR

CVSS Version 2

Version
2.0

Vector String
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Access Vector
NETWORK

Access Compatibility
MEDIUM

Authentication
NONE

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL

Integrity Impact
PARTIAL

Availability Impact
PARTIAL

Base Score
6.8

Severity
MEDIUM

Exploitability Score
8.6

Impact Score
6.4

References

Reference URL	Reference Tags
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/07/3
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T85858
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:200
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2015-March/000175.html	Patch Vendor Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/01/1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73477
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-05

Sources

Source Name	Source URL
NIST	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-2940
MITRE	https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-2940

History

Created	Old Value	New Value	Data Type	Notes
2022-05-10 09:59:35				Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-02 04:17:06	2015-04-13T14:59Z	2015-04-13T14:59:13	CVE Published Date	updated
2022-12-02 04:17:06		2016-12-07T18:11:04	CVE Modified Date	updated
2022-12-02 04:17:06		Modified	Vulnerability Status	updated