CVE-2010-2787 Information

Description

api.php in MediaWiki before 1.15.5 does not prevent use of public caching headers for private data which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions and obtain sensitive information by retrieving documents from an HTTP proxy cache that has been used by a victim.

Reference

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058588.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058910.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/059232.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/059235.html http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2010-July/000092.html http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/07/29/4 http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki?view=revision&revision=69776 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/42019 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=620224 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=620226 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24565