Bug 1081891 (CVE-2014-2665) - CVE-2014-2665 mediawiki: missing CSRF protection on Special:ChangePassword
Summary: CVE-2014-2665 mediawiki: missing CSRF protection on Special:ChangePassword
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: CVE-2014-2665
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1081892 1081893 1081894
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-03-28 07:11 UTC by Murray McAllister
Modified: 2019-09-29 13:15 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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
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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.


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