Bug 806350 (CVE-2012-1579)

Summary:	CVE-2012-1579 mediawiki (v1.18.2): Possibility to load user.tokens module remotely
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	axel.thimm, extras-orphan
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2012-03-23 14:02:44 UTC

A private data exposure flaw wa found in the way the resource loader of MediaWiki, a wiki engine, handled access privileges to the user.tokens module. If a remote attacker could trick a valid MediaWiki user into visiting a specially-crafted web page, it could allow the attacker to compromise the MediaWiki account of the victim by stealing the contents of tokens used for CSRF protection.

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=34907

Patch against v1.17 version:
[3] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34907#c7

Patch against v1.18 version:
[4] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34907#c8

Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2012-03-23 14:08:07 UTC

This issue did NOT affect 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 2012-03-26 09:13:09 UTC

The CVE identifier of CVE-2012-1579 has been assigned to this issue:
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/24/1