Bug 1081891 (CVE-2014-2665)

Summary:	CVE-2014-2665 mediawiki: missing CSRF protection on Special:ChangePassword
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Murray McAllister <mmcallis>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	extras-orphan, gwync, ian, mike, puiterwijk
Target Milestone:	---	Keywords:	Security
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	mediawiki 1.22.5, mediawiki 1.21.8, mediawiki 1.19.14	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2019-06-08 02:32:16 UTC	Type:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Depends On:	1081892, 1081893, 1081894
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Description Murray McAllister 2014-03-28 07:11:04 UTC

The MediaWiki release announcement for versions 1.22.5, 1.21.8 and 1.19.14 notes the following:

== Security ==
* (bug 62497) SECURITY: Add CSRF token on Special:ChangePassword.

This could be used to reset another user's password. A patch is available from the below bugzilla.wikimedia.org bug.

References:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2014-March/000145.html
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62497

Comment 1 Murray McAllister 2014-03-28 07:13:00 UTC

Created mediawiki tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1081892]
Affects: epel-5 [bug 1081893]

Comment 2 Murray McAllister 2014-03-28 07:13:03 UTC

Created mediawiki119 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-6 [bug 1081894]

Comment 3 Murray McAllister 2014-03-28 07:14:14 UTC

CVE request: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/28/1

Comment 4 Murray McAllister 2014-04-02 02:05:55 UTC

MITRE assigned CVE-2014-2665 to this issue:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q2/6

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2014-04-09 01:00:23 UTC

mediawiki-1.21.8-1.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2014-04-09 01:03:49 UTC

mediawiki-1.21.8-1.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2014-05-16 03:03:57 UTC

mediawiki119-1.19.15-1.el5 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 5 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2014-05-16 03:04:19 UTC

mediawiki119-1.19.15-1.el6 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 6 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 10 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-08 02:32:16 UTC

This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.