CVE-2012-5395 (GCVE-0-2012-5395)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-06-02 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 21:05
VLAI
Summary
Session fixation vulnerability in the CentralAuth extension for MediaWiki before 1.18.6, 1.19.x before 1.19.3, and 1.20.x before 1.20.1 allows remote attackers to hijack web sessions via the centralauth_Session cookie.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
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References
Date Public
2012-10-11 00:00
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