Bug 806343 (CVE-2012-1578)

Summary:	CVE-2012-1578 mediawiki (v1.18.2): CSRF in the block / unblock API modules
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	Axel.Thimm, extras-orphan
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OS:	Linux
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Bug Depends On:	806398
Bug Blocks:	806396

Description Jan Lieskovsky 2012-03-23 13:43:05 UTC

It was found that the block / unblock API modules of MediaWiki, a wiki engine, did not verify if the security token was being present in the operations performing blocking / unblocking of another user account. A valid MediaWiki user with block privileges could use this flaw to block or unblock user account of another user without providing a security token (CSRF).

References:
[1] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2012-March/059230.html

Upstream bug report:
[2] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34212

Upstream patch:
[3] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/attachment.cgi?id=9957

Included within revision:
[4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/114429

Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2012-03-23 13:44:26 UTC

This issue affects the versions of the mediawiki package, as shipped with Fedora release of 15 and 16.

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This issue did NOT affect the version of the mediawiki package, as shipped with Fedora EPEL 5.

Comment 2 Jan Lieskovsky 2012-03-23 15:57:52 UTC

Created mediawiki tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 806398]

Comment 3 Jan Lieskovsky 2012-03-26 09:11:58 UTC

The CVE identifier of CVE-2012-1578 has been assigned to this issue:
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/24/1

Comment 4 Vincent Danen 2013-05-08 20:42:03 UTC

The current version of mediawiki in Fedora is not vulnerable to this issue (1.19.4), however EPEL5 still provides mediawiki 1.14 as well as 1.16; EPEL6 and Fedora also provide 1.16.  It is unknown whether or not those versions are affected by this issue as they are no longer supported by upstream.