CVE-2015-6728 (GCVE-0-2015-6728)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-09-01 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 07:29
VLAI
Summary
The ApiBase::getWatchlistUser function in MediaWiki before 1.23.10, 1.24.x before 1.24.3, and 1.25.x before 1.25.2 does not perform token comparison in constant time, which allows remote attackers to guess the watchlist token and bypass CSRF protection via a timing attack.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-05 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/27/6 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/12/6 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-a… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76334 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
Date Public
2015-08-10 00:00
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