CVE-2013-4572 Information

Description

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Reference

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-December/122998.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-December/123011.html http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2013-November/000135.html https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53032

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

NONE

Base Severity

7.5