Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Informations
Name CVE-2014-3966 First vendor Publication 2014-06-06
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2017-12-29

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Cvss Base Score 2.6 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity High
Cvss Expoit Score 4.9 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Special:PasswordReset in MediaWiki before 1.19.16, 1.21.x before 1.21.10, and 1.22.x before 1.22.7, when wgRawHtml is enabled, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an invalid username.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-3966

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-79 Failure to Preserve Web Page Structure ('Cross-site Scripting') (CWE/SANS Top 25)

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:25068
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:25068
Title: DSA-2957-1 mediawiki - security update
Description: Omer Iqbal discovered that Mediawiki, a wiki engine, parses invalid usernames on Special:PasswordReset as wikitext when $wgRawHtml is enabled. On such wikis this allows an unauthenticated attacker to insert malicious JavaScript, a cross site scripting attack.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-2957-1
CVE-2014-3966
 Version: 3
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 7.0
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 7.0
 Product(s): mediawiki
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 251

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2014-06-19 Name : The remote web server contains an application that is affected by a cross-sit...
File : mediawiki_1_21_10.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-06-13 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-2957.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-06-11 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2014-119.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Sources (Detail)

Source Url
BID http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67787
CONFIRM https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65501
DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2957
MLIST http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2014-May/000151.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/06/04/15
SECTRACK http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030364
SECUNIA http://secunia.com/advisories/58834
http://secunia.com/advisories/58896

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