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CVE-2013-4572

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Date: February 6, 2020

The CentralNotice extension for MediaWiki before 1.19.9, 1.20.x before 1.20.8, and 1.21.x before 1.21.3 sets the Cache-Control header to cache session cookies when a user is autocreated, which allows remote attackers to authenticate as the created user.

Language: PHP

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Related Resources (8)

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2013-November/000135.html
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4572
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-4572
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-December/122998.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-December/123011.html
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53032
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2013-4572
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2013-4572

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Weakness Type (CWE)

Session Fixation

CWE-384

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CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): HIGH
Availability (A): NONE

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC): LOW
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): PARTIAL
Availability (A): NONE
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