CVE-2015-2940 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

Published: 2015-04-13

Score: 6.8 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:checkuser:-:*:*:*:*:mediawiki:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2015-3025	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.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00295.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

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

History

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Subscriptions

Mediawiki Checkuser

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2015-04-13T14:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-06T05:32:20.467Z

Reserved: 2015-04-07T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2015-2940

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2015-04-13T14:59:13.520

Modified: 2026-05-06T22:30:45.220

Link: CVE-2015-2940

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-352

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