PT-2017-7453

CVE-2015-8623

Published

2015-12-24

Updated

2017-08-22

Description by

CVSS 3.1

8.8

High

MetricsAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions MediaWiki versions prior to 1.23.12 MediaWiki versions 1.24.x prior to 1.24.5

Description The issue allows remote attackers to bypass CSRF protection via a timing attack. This is due to the User::matchEditToken function not performing token comparison in constant time before returning.

Recommendations For MediaWiki versions prior to 1.23.12, update to version 1.23.12 or later. For MediaWiki versions 1.24.x prior to 1.24.5, update to version 1.24.5 or later.

Exploitability

Exploit

Fix

Impacts

Researchers

Vendors

Affected products

Weakness enumeration

CWE-352: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Related identifiers

CVE-2015-8623

ALT-PU-2017-2095