Executive Summary



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Summary
Title New mediawiki packages fix cross-site request forgery
Informations
Name DSA-2041 First vendor Publication 2010-05-03
Vendor Debian Last vendor Modification 2010-05-03
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision 1

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:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 6 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 6.8 Authentication Requires single instance
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Detail

It was discovered that mediawiki, a website engine for collaborative work, is vulnerable to a Cross-Site Request Forgery login attack, which could be used to conduct phishing or similar attacks to users via affected mediawiki installations.

Note that the fix used breaks the login API and may require clients using it to be updated.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1:1.12.0-2lenny5.

For the testing distribution (squeeze) and the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1:1.15.3-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your mediawiki packages.

Original Source

Url : http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2041

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) (CWE/SANS Top 25)

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:13493
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:13493
Title: DSA-2041-1 mediawiki -- CSRF
Description: It was discovered that mediawiki, a website engine for collaborative work, is vulnerable to a Cross-Site Request Forgery login attack, which could be used to conduct phishing or similar attacks to users via affected mediawiki installations. Note that the fix used breaks the login API and may require clients using it to be updated. For the stable distribution, this problem has been fixed in version 1:1.12.0-2lenny5. For the testing distribution and the unstable distribution , this problem has been fixed in version 1:1.15.3-1. We recommend that you upgrade your mediawiki packages.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-2041-1
CVE-2010-1150
Version: 5
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 5.0
Product(s): mediawiki
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:7264
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:7264
Title: DSA-2041 mediawiki -- Cross-Site Request Forgery
Description: It was discovered that mediawiki, a website engine for collaborative work, is vulnerable to a Cross-Site Request Forgery login attack, which could be used to conduct phishing or similar attacks to users via affected mediawiki installations. Note that the fix used breaks the login API and may require clients using it to be updated.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-2041
CVE-2010-1150
Version: 7
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 5.0
Product(s): mediawiki
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 184

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2010-05-14 Name : FreeBSD Ports: mediawiki
File : nvt/freebsd_mediawiki3.nasl
2010-04-29 Name : MediaWiki Login CSRF Vulnerability
File : nvt/secpod_mediawiki_login_csrf_vuln.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
63570 MediaWiki Unspecified CSRF

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2010-05-07 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.
File : freebsd_pkg_694da5b4587711df8d800015587e2cc1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2010-05-05 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-2041.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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