CVE-2013-4572

Debian Security Advisory 2891-3

Severity Score

7.5

*CVSS v3.1

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

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.

La extensión CentralNotice para MediaWiki versiones anteriores a 1.19.9, versiones 1.20.x anteriores a 1.20.8 y versiones 1.21.x anteriores a 1.21.3, establece el encabezado Cache-Control para almacenar en caché las cookies de sesión cuando un usuario es autocreado, lo que permite a atacantes remotos autenticarse como usuario creado.

Kevin Israel identified and reported two vectors for injecting Javascript in CSS that bypassed MediaWiki's blacklist. Internal review while debugging a site issue discovered that MediaWiki and the CentralNotice extension were incorrectly setting cache headers when a user was autocreated, causing the user's session cookies to be cached, and returned to other users.

*Credits: N/A

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

High

Availability

None

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

Partial

Availability

None

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2013-06-12 CVE Reserved
2013-12-19 CVE Published
2024-08-06 CVE Updated
2025-03-30 EPSS Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date
---------- First Exploit

CWE

CWE-384: Session Fixation

CAPEC

References (4)

URL	Tag	Source
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-December/122998.html	Mailing List
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-December/123011.html	Mailing List
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2013-November/000135.html	Mailing List

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53032	2020-02-10

URL	Date	SRC

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Mediawiki Search vendor "Mediawiki"		Mediawiki Search vendor "Mediawiki" for product "Mediawiki"				< 1.19.9 Search vendor "Mediawiki" for product "Mediawiki" and version " < 1.19.9"		-		Affected
Mediawiki Search vendor "Mediawiki"		Mediawiki Search vendor "Mediawiki" for product "Mediawiki"				>= 1.20 < 1.20.8 Search vendor "Mediawiki" for product "Mediawiki" and version " >= 1.20 < 1.20.8"		-		Affected
Mediawiki Search vendor "Mediawiki"		Mediawiki Search vendor "Mediawiki" for product "Mediawiki"				>= 1.21 < 1.21.3 Search vendor "Mediawiki" for product "Mediawiki" and version " >= 1.21 < 1.21.3"		-		Affected
Fedoraproject Search vendor "Fedoraproject"		Fedora Search vendor "Fedoraproject" for product "Fedora"				18 Search vendor "Fedoraproject" for product "Fedora" and version "18"		-		Affected
Fedoraproject Search vendor "Fedoraproject"		Fedora Search vendor "Fedoraproject" for product "Fedora"				19 Search vendor "Fedoraproject" for product "Fedora" and version "19"		-		Affected